Surface syntax of English : a formal model within the meaning-text framework /

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Author / Creator:Melʹčuk, Igorʹ A. (Igorʹ Aleksandrovič), 1932-
Imprint:Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1987.
Description:xvi, 526 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Linguistic & literary studies in Eastern Europe, 0165-7712 ; v. 13
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/660873
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Other authors / contributors:Pert͡sov, N. V. (Nikolaĭ Viktorovich), 1944-
Kittredge, Richard, 1941-
ISBN:9027215154 (Netherlands : alk. paper) : $96.00 (U.S.)
Notes:Includes index.
Bibliography: p. [507]-520.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Editor's Preface
  • 2. Foreword
  • 3. Acknowledgements
  • 4. Introduction
  • 5. §1. Three raisons d'être of this Book
  • 6. §2. Five Main Characteristics of the Syntactic Approach in this Book
  • 7. 3. Organization of this Book
  • 8. Chapter I. A Brief Outline of the Meaning-Text Theory and the Corresponding Linguistic Model
  • 9. §1. General Remarks
  • 10. §2. Levels of Utterance Representation in the Meaning-Text Model
  • 11. §3. General Design of the Meaning-Text Model
  • 12. §4. Five Basic Principles of the Meaning-Text Approach
  • 13. Chapter II. Surface-Syntactic Representation for English Sentences
  • 14. §1. General Characterization of the Surface-Syntactic Representation
  • 15. §2. Surface-Syntactic Structure
  • 16. §3. Conditions for Grammatical Correctness of English Surface-Syntactic Structures
  • 17. §4. Surface-Syntactic Relations in Modern English
  • 18. Specimens of Surface-Syntactic Structures for English Sentences
  • 19. Chapter III. Deep-Morphological Representation for English Sentences
  • 20. §1. General Characterization of the Deep-Morphological Representation (of a Sentence)
  • 21. §2. Deep-Morphological Structure
  • 22. §3. Conditions for Grammatical Correctness of English Deep-Morphological Structures
  • 23. §4. Morphological Variables and Values of Wordforms in Modern English
  • 24. Chapter IV. Surface-Syntactic Component of English
  • 25. §1. General Characterization of the Surface-Syntactic Component
  • 26. §2. The Notion of Syntagm
  • 27. §3. Syntagms of Modern English
  • 28. Appendix I. Parts of Speech and Syntactic Features of English Lexemes
  • 29. Appendix II. Standard Subtrees
  • 30. A. Internal Structure of Standard Subtrees
  • 31. B. External Connections of Standard Subtrees
  • 32. C. Distribution (among the Individual Nodes of the Subtree) of Labels that are Attached to the Subtree Symbol as a Whole
  • 33. Appendix III. List of English Lexemes Mentioned in Syntagms ('Syntactic' Lexemes)
  • 34. Appendix IV. Samples of English Syntactic Phenomena Unaccounted for in the Proposed Description
  • 35. References
  • 36. Subject and Term Index