[en] This paper investigates the evolution of the spatial rationales of Tesnière’s syntactic diagrams (stemma). I show that the conventions change from his first attempts to model complete sentences up to the classical stemma he uses in his _Elements of structural syntax_ (1959). From mostly symbolic representations of hierarchy (directed arrows from the dependent to the governor), he shifts to a more configurational one (connected dependents are placed below the governor).
Disciplines :
Languages & linguistics
Author, co-author :
Mazziotta, Nicolas ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de langues et littératures romanes > Linguistique synchronique du français
Language :
English
Title :
The evolution of spatial rationales in Tesnière’s stemmas
