"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"--.

• 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