Chapter 8. The Russian trail
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Patrick Sériot
Abstract
L. Tesnière is not the first inventor of dependency grammars. In fact, a “climate of opinion” can be formed without any direct contact in time and space between linguists who do not know each other but came to similar views because they met the same problems and were dissatisfied with the Subject/Predicate scheme of classical grammars. A comparison of L. Tesnière and A. Dmitrievsky is proposed here to reconstruct the multiple ways which led to the idea of dependency grammars, around the technical obstacle of impersonal syntactic structures.
Abstract
L. Tesnière is not the first inventor of dependency grammars. In fact, a “climate of opinion” can be formed without any direct contact in time and space between linguists who do not know each other but came to similar views because they met the same problems and were dissatisfied with the Subject/Predicate scheme of classical grammars. A comparison of L. Tesnière and A. Dmitrievsky is proposed here to reconstruct the multiple ways which led to the idea of dependency grammars, around the technical obstacle of impersonal syntactic structures.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Aspects of the theory and history of dependency grammar 1
- Chapter 1. Syntactic relations in ancient and medieval grammatical theory 23
- Chapter 2. The notion of dependency in Latin grammar in the Renaissance and the 17th century 59
- Chapter 3. How dependency syntax appeared in the French Encyclopedia 85
- Chapter 4. Dependency in early sentence diagrams 133
- Chapter 5. Sámuel Brassai in the history of dependency grammar 163
- Chapter 6. Franz Kern 189
- Chapter 7. Some aspects of dependency in Otto Jespersen’s structural syntax 215
- Chapter 8. The Russian trail 253
- Index nominum 277
- Index rerum 279
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Aspects of the theory and history of dependency grammar 1
- Chapter 1. Syntactic relations in ancient and medieval grammatical theory 23
- Chapter 2. The notion of dependency in Latin grammar in the Renaissance and the 17th century 59
- Chapter 3. How dependency syntax appeared in the French Encyclopedia 85
- Chapter 4. Dependency in early sentence diagrams 133
- Chapter 5. Sámuel Brassai in the history of dependency grammar 163
- Chapter 6. Franz Kern 189
- Chapter 7. Some aspects of dependency in Otto Jespersen’s structural syntax 215
- Chapter 8. The Russian trail 253
- Index nominum 277
- Index rerum 279
