Book review
Chapters of Dependency Grammar. A historical survey from Antiquity to Tesnière. Edited by András Imrényi & Nicolas Mazziotta (Studies in Language Companion Series, 212).
Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2020. 281 pp. ISBN 978-90-272-0476-9 (HB) / 978-90-272-6170-0 (e-book) € 99 DOI logo

Reviewed by Franck Neveu
Sorbonne University
Table of contents

This book on Dependency Grammar approaches the notion from the point of view of historical epistemology. It provides a wealth of analyses of great interest for the study of linguistic ideas. It also tackles the question of the exact relationship that can be established between the work of Lucien Tesnière (1893–1954), mainly his Eléments de syntaxe structurale (1959, second edition 1966), and the methodological and theoretical framework of dependency grammar.

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