Some aspects of dependency in Otto Jespersen’s structural syntax
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Some aspects of dependency in Otto Jespersen’s structural syntax. / Cigana, Lorenzo.
Chapters of Dependency Grammar: A historical survey from Antiquity to Tesnière. red. / András Imrényi; Nicolas Mazziotta. Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2020. s. 216-251 (Studies in Language Companion Series; Nr. 212).Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport › Bidrag til bog/antologi › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Some aspects of dependency in Otto Jespersen’s structural syntax
AU - Cigana, Lorenzo
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - This paper aims to challenge the assumption according to which Otto Jespersen’s syntactic model represents an anticipation of the immediate constituent analysis. In our opinion, there are elements that rather align with a more dependency-oriented framework, as it is the case of Jespersen’s notorious theory of three ranks (1913, 1921, 1937). This was developed over more than twenty years and was meant to constitute the necessary presupposition (and thus the theoretical base) for the very distinction between junction and nexus, grounding it on a pure functional base. Albeit not always consistently or exhaustively fleshed out, the theory of three ranks represents one of Jespersen’s most interesting ideas. The model will be described in detail, focusing on the latest and more formalized version given in Analytic Syntax (1937), by discussing the notation adopted and checking if it fits the five basic requirements for a dependency-based model, as per Mazziotta & Kahane (2017). Finally, it will be shown how Jespersen’s model was taken over by Louis Hjelmslev (1928), in order to develop a purely relations-oriented morphosyntactic theory.
AB - This paper aims to challenge the assumption according to which Otto Jespersen’s syntactic model represents an anticipation of the immediate constituent analysis. In our opinion, there are elements that rather align with a more dependency-oriented framework, as it is the case of Jespersen’s notorious theory of three ranks (1913, 1921, 1937). This was developed over more than twenty years and was meant to constitute the necessary presupposition (and thus the theoretical base) for the very distinction between junction and nexus, grounding it on a pure functional base. Albeit not always consistently or exhaustively fleshed out, the theory of three ranks represents one of Jespersen’s most interesting ideas. The model will be described in detail, focusing on the latest and more formalized version given in Analytic Syntax (1937), by discussing the notation adopted and checking if it fits the five basic requirements for a dependency-based model, as per Mazziotta & Kahane (2017). Finally, it will be shown how Jespersen’s model was taken over by Louis Hjelmslev (1928), in order to develop a purely relations-oriented morphosyntactic theory.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Dependency
KW - structuralism
KW - theoretical linguistics
KW - Linguistics
KW - Syntax
KW - history of linguistics
UR - https://benjamins.com/catalog/slcs.212
U2 - 10.1075/slcs.212.08cig
DO - 10.1075/slcs.212.08cig
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 9789027204769
T3 - Studies in Language Companion Series
SP - 216
EP - 251
BT - Chapters of Dependency Grammar
A2 - Imrényi, András
A2 - Mazziotta, Nicolas
PB - John Benjamins Publishing Company
CY - Amsterdam
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