Is Dependency Grammar Really Finished? Valence Realization Levels, Congruence, Subject, and the Limits of the Syntactic Valence Model

A criticism of Heide Wegener's comparison of dependency grammar & government & rection theory & her conclusion that the latter is superior to the former (see LLBA 25/1, 9101321). Doubts are expressed whether these two linguistic models can be compared. Wegener's criteria of obs...

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Published inZeitschrift für germanistische Linguistik Vol. 21; no. 1; pp. 20 - 70
Main Author Agel, Vilmos
Format Journal Article
LanguageGerman
Published 01.01.1993
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Dependency Grammar
Government Binding Theory
Valence
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ISSN0301-3294

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Summary:A criticism of Heide Wegener's comparison of dependency grammar & government & rection theory & her conclusion that the latter is superior to the former (see LLBA 25/1, 9101321). Doubts are expressed whether these two linguistic models can be compared. Wegener's criteria of observational, descriptive, & explanatory adequacies are critiqued. The criterion of descriptive adequacy is found to be a subjective measure that should be replaced with the criterion of sociolinguistic integration: a system-linguistic model is adequate when it can be integrated into adequate sociolinguistic & language change theories. A dependency grammar model consisting of macrovalence (syntactic) & microvalence (morphological) levels - with the latter's primacy over the former - is proposed to show how dependency grammar can adequately address such issues as subject, congruence, government, & ellipsis. 106 References. Z. Dubiel
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ISSN:0301-3294