In:A Dependency Grammar of English: An introduction and beyond
Timothy Osborne
[Not in series 224] 2019
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Published online: 13 August 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.224.toc
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Table of contents
Chapter 1.Some concepts of syntactic theory1
1.1Overview1
1.2Constituents and some tests that identify them2
1.3Phrases6
1.4Grammatical relations7
1.5Subjects9
1.6Semantic roles12
1.7Predicates, arguments, and adjuncts15
1.8Identifying arguments and adjuncts18
1.9The content of adjuncts23
1.10Complements and adjuncts within NPs25
1.11Second-order predicates28
Chapter 2.Dependency and phrase structure33
2.1Overview33
2.2Precedence and dominance34
2.3Dependency vs. phrase structure36
2.4Strengths and weaknesses43
2.5Endo- vs. exocentric structures48
2.6Translation: Phrase structure → dependency50
2.7Translation: Dependency → phrase structure54
2.8Hybrid systems – Reed Kellogg diagrams57
2.9Brackets, arced arrows, and indentations59
2.10Dependency vs. phrase structure scrutinized64
Chapter 3.The argument for dependency73
3.1Overview73
3.2Tests for constituents74
3.3In favor of dependency79
3.4The coordination diagnostic83
3.5Do-so-substitution85
3.6One-substitution88
3.7Clause binarity90
3.8Binary branching vs. flat structures94
3.9Historical overview of DG98
Chapter 4.Units of structure105
4.1Overview105
4.2Generic units106
4.3Relational units110
4.4Catenae and ratios112
4.5Phrase structure constituents115
4.6Catenae in phrase structure grammar116
4.7Subject plus finite verb120
4.8Government122
4.9Auxiliary verb plus content verb125
4.10NP vs. DP127
4.11Governors vs. selectors132
Chapter 5.Morphological, semantic, and prosodic dependencies135
5.1Overview135
5.2Morphological dependencies (agreement)136
5.3Case government140
5.4Semantic dependencies (selection)143
5.5Adjunct arrows147
5.6Idiom selectors149
5.7Predicates vs. predications151
5.8Prosodic dependencies (clitics)154
Chapter 6.Valency159
6.1Overview159
6.2Tesnière’s metaphor160
6.3Semantic vs. syntactic valency162
6.4Valency frames165
6.5Finite vs. nonfinite verbs167
6.6Passive participles and ergative verbs169
6.7Clausal valents173
6.8Control175
6.9Raising181
6.10Missing objects186
6.11Auxiliaries190
6.12Light verbs193
6.13Beyond verb valency194
Chapter 7.Word order199
7.1Overview199
7.2Monostratal syntax200
7.3Projectivity203
7.4Head-dependent ordering206
7.5Co-sibling ordering210
7.6Shifting213
7.7Overview of inversion216
7.8Subject-auxiliary inversion218
7.9Subject-verb inversion221
7.10Rising222
7.11Constituent vs. non-constituent rising226
7.12The Rising Principle230
7.13Motivating rising232
7.14Motivating non-constituent rising235
Chapter 8.Types of discontinuities243
8.1Overview243
8.2Wh-fronting245
8.3Topicalization250
8.4NP-internal fronting255
8.5Scrambling259
8.6Extraposition263
Chapter 9.Islands269
9.1Overview269
9.2Risen and rising catenae270
9.3Prepositions stranding272
9.4Left branch islands274
9.5Pied-piping279
9.6Specified NP islands280
9.7Subject islands284
9.8Adjunct islands287
9.9Wh-islands290
9.10Right roof islands293
Chapter 10.Coordination297
10.1Overview297
10.2Parallel strings298
10.3Dependency vs. phrase structure (again)301
10.4String vs. gapping coordination307
10.5Large vs. small conjuncts312
10.6Forward vs. backward string coordination315
10.7String and/or gapping coordination317
10.8Summary319
Chapter 11.The structure of coordination321
11.1Overview321
11.2Tree conventions322
11.3Parallelism326
11.4Functional parallelism329
11.5Structural parallelism331
11.6A confounding factor: Gapping and stripping334
11.7More on structural parallelism338
11.8A restriction on forward sharing (and gapping)340
11.9Sharing and prepositions345
Chapter 12.Ellipsis349
12.1Overview349
12.2Null material350
12.3Targeted catenae and remnants353
12.4New information355
12.5Criteria of classification356
12.6NP-ellipsis356
12.7Gapping361
12.8Stripping365
12.9VP-ellipsis369
12.10Pseudogapping375
Chapter 13.More ellipsis379
13.1Overview379
13.2Answer fragments380
13.3Sluicing385
13.4Null complement anaphora391
13.5Comparative deletion398
13.6Left edge ellipsis401
13.7Further types of ellipsis404
13.8Summary of ellipsis406
Chapter 14.The syntax of comparatives409
14.1Overview409
14.2Preliminaries410
14.3Comparative coordination413
14.4Ellipsis or not?415
14.5Functional equivalence417
14.6The role of extraposition421
14.7The distribution of comparative deletion424
Concluding statements427
References429
Index439
