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[en] 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. From Priscian’s Rome to Dmitrievsky’s Russia, from the French Encyclopaedia to Stephen W. Clark’s school grammars in 19th century America, it is shown how the concept of dependencies (asymmetric word-to-word relations) surfaced again and again, assuming a central place in syntax. A particularly intriguing aspect of the storyline is that even without any direct contact or influence, authors were making
key breakthroughs in similar directions. In the works of Sámuel Brassai, a Transylvanian polymath, and Franz Kern, a German grammarian, the first dependency trees appear in 1873 and 1883, respectively, predating Tesnière’s stemmas by several decades.
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Table of contents:
Aspects of the theory and history of dependency grammar
(Nicolas Mazziotta and András Imrényi)
Chapter 1. Syntactic relations in ancient and medieval grammatical theory
(Anneli Luhtala)
Chapter 2. The notion of dependency in Latin grammar in the Renaissance and the 17th century
(Bernard Colombat)
Chapter 3. How dependency syntax appeared in the French Encyclopedia: From Buffier (1709) to Beauzée (1765)
(Sylvain Kahane)
Chapter 4. Dependency in early sentence diagrams: Stephen W. Clark
(Nicolas Mazziotta)
Chapter 5. Sámuel Brassai in the history of dependency grammar
(András Imrényi and Zsuzsa Vladár)
Chapter 6. Franz Kern: An early dependency grammarian
(Timothy Osborne)
Chapter 7. Some aspects of dependency in Otto Jespersen’s structural syntax
(Lorenzo Cigana)
Chapter 8. The Russian trail: Dmitrievsky, the little drama metaphor and dependency grammar
(Patrick Sériot)
Index nominum
Index rerum
