Chapters of Dependency Grammar : A Historical Survey from Antiquity to Tesnière.

Intro -- Chapters of Dependency Grammar -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Aspects of the theory and history of dependency grammar -- 1. The need for studies on the history of dependency grammar -- 2. Presentation of the papers -- 3. What dependency is -- 3.1 Linear vs structural order -- 3.2 Diagrams -- 3.3 Approaches to the autonomy of syntax -- 3.4 Verb centrality -- 3.5 Valency -- 4. Beyond the scope of this book -- 4.1 Other concepts in Tesnière's theory -- 4.2 Dependency in other traditions -- 4.3 After Tesnière -- 5. Scientific committee -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Chapter 1. Syntactic relations in ancient and medieval grammatical theory -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Stoic logic -- 2.1 Stoic proposition -- 2.2 Self-sufficiency (Autoteleia) -- 2.3 Stoic predicate types -- 2.4 Referentiality -- 3. Ancient theory of syntax -- 3.1 Rationalistic grammar -- 3.2 Meaning (intelligibile) -- 3.3 Definition of sentence -- 3.4 Congruity (katallelotes, congruitas) -- 3.5 Noun-centered view -- 3.6 Verb-centered view -- 3.7 Transitivity -- 3.8 Concord and coreferentiality -- 4. Syntactic theory in the High Middle Ages -- 4.1 Hugh of St. Victor's De grammatica -- 4.2 The Summa super Priscianum of Peter Helias -- 5. The speculative grammar of the late Middle Ages -- 5.1 Modes of signifying -- 5.2 Transitivity -- 5.3 New dependency relations -- 5.4 Grammaticality and well-formedness -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- A. Primary sources -- B. Critical sources -- Chapter 2. The notion of dependency in Latin grammar in the Renaissance and the 17th century -- 1. The definition and division of syntax in the first humanist Latin grammar -- 2. Agreement/concord -- 2.1 How does agreement differ from government? -- 2.2 Complex agreements: How to deal with the interdependency of heterogeneous elements.

3. The government of the verb -- 4. The evolution of the system -- 4.1 The model built around transitivity -- 4.2 Sanctius: Towards a model with simplified dependency rules -- 5. Particular syntactic structures and dependency -- 5.1 Ablative absolute, locative and preposition -- 5.2 The syntax of relative pronouns -- 5.3 Can the conjunction govern? The notion of "improper concord" -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgment -- References -- A. Primary source -- B. Critical sources -- Chapter 3. How dependency syntax appeared in the French Encyclopedia: From Buffier (1709) to Beauzée (1765) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Dependency syntax in Beauzée -- 2.1 Regime vs. complement -- 2.2 Beauzée's syntactic structures -- 2.3 Analytical order -- 2.4 Syntactic constraints on word order -- 3. From Buffier to Beauzée -- 3.1 Port-Royal (1660, 1662) -- 3.2 Buffier (1709) -- 3.3 Girard (1747) -- 3.4 Du Marsais (1754) -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- A. Primary sources -- B. Critical sources -- Chapter 4. Dependency in early sentence diagrams: Stephen W. Clark -- 1. Introduction -- 2. From parsing to sentence analysis and diagrams -- 3. Clark's diagramming system: Basic rationales, and the notion of 'reification' -- 4. Diagrams and dependency trees compared -- 5. Clark's diagramming system and dependency -- 5.1 Connection-basedness -- 5.2 Binarity -- 5.3 Headedness -- 5.4 Flatness and word-to-node mapping -- 6. Legacy and similar systems -- 6.1 Genealogy of the diagramming systems -- 6.2 Other choices in reification -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- A. Primary sources -- B. Critical sources -- Chapter 5. Sámuel Brassai in the history of dependency grammar -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Motivations and influences behind Brassai's work -- 2.1 Motivations, general agenda -- 2.2 Influences behind Brassai's verb-centred theory of the sentence -- 2.3 From techne to episteme.

3. Brassai's verb-centred theory of the sentence -- 3.1 Metaphors -- 3.2 Sentence diagrams -- 3.3 Dependency notions in Brassai's description of Hungarian -- 4. Inchoative and bulk. Does duality require constituency? -- 4.1 Brassai's interpretation by É. Kiss in constituency terms -- 4.2 A consistently dependency-based explication of Brassai's ideas -- 5. Summary and conclusions -- Acknowledgement -- References -- A. Primary sources -- B. Critical sources -- Chapter 6. Franz Kern: An early dependency grammarian -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Aspects of Kern's DG -- 2.1 Finite verbs and complex predicates -- 2.2 Prepositions and subordinators -- 2.3 Secondary predicates -- 2.4 Coordination -- 3. Kern's impact -- 4. Who influenced Kern? -- 5. Kern vs. Tesnière -- 6. Summary and concluding comments -- References -- A. Primary sources -- B. Critical sources -- Chapter 7. Some aspects of dependency in Otto Jespersen's structural syntax -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Basic structures -- 2.1 Nexus and junction -- 2.2 The functional model of ranks -- 3. Jespersen's notation -- 3.1 Connection-basedness -- 3.2 Binarity -- 3.3 Headedness -- 3.4 Node-to-word mapping -- 3.5 Flatness -- 4. A case of critical reinterpretation -- 5. Concluding remarks -- References -- A. Primary sources -- B. Critical sources -- Chapter 8. The Russian trail: Dmitrievsky, the little drama metaphor and dependency grammar -- 1. "Plato's theorem", object of stigmatization -- 2. Tesnière, reader of Humboldt -- 3. Dmitrievsky and anti-nominativism -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- A. Primary sources -- B. Critical sources -- Index nominum -- Index rerum.

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 20th century.

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