num_pages: 544
description: This book is the first attempt to describe the syntax of Contemporary English exclusively in terms of dependencies (most American works on the subject being in terms of phrase structure, or constituency). The three main features of it (1) a fully formal presentation, (2) a reasonably complete coverage of English surface syntax, and (3) an exposition oriented towards human readers (rather than computers).The book can be recommended for several categories of specialists in English syntax, linguists interested in general and theoretical syntax, computational linguists, researchers in related fields (including psychology and artificial intelligence) concerned with automatic processing (both synthesis and analysis) of English texts.
language: English
title: Surface Syntax of English
titlecomplete: Surface Syntax of English (Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe)
series: Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe
publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company