Was Tesnière the founding father of dependency grammar or merely a culmination point in its long history? Leaving no doubt that the latter position is correct, Chapters of Dependency Grammar tells the story of how dependency-oriented grammatical description developed from Antiquity up to the early… read more
American grammarians were the first to make a systematic use of diagrams to depict syntactic relations. Among the most elaborated early attempts to visualize syntactic relations, Stephen W. Clark’s Practical Grammar
(1847) delivered many diagrams that merge constituency-based analyses,… read more
Il est possible de modéliser la variation et le changement valenciel à l’aide des structures formelles que nous nommons polygraphes. Ces derniers étendent les arbres syntaxiques dépendanciels en autorisant des relations à porter sur d’autres relations. En prenant l’exemple de l’expression… read more
This contribution investigates the syntactic conceptions of, and the diagramming system introduced by, the American grammarian Stephen Watkins Clark (1810–1901), who introduced the first comprehensive syntactic diagramming system. The structure of the English sentence is illustrated by… read more
Scholars have proposed many different models to describe coordination of verbal dependents. We give a brief presentation of the most common ways to deal with this construction from a general point of view. We then evaluate the adequacy of the models using data from Old French. In this particular… read more
