Dependency Structures from Syntax to Discourse

Based on the large corpora of journalistic English, this title examines dependency relations and related properties at both syntactic and discourse levels, seeking to unravel the language patterns of real-life usage.

Autorentext

Hongxin (Maria) Zhang is a lecturer at the School of International Studies, Zhejiang University, China. Her main research interests include quantitative linguistics, dependency grammar, synergetic linguistics and discourse studies.

Inhalt

1. Introduction 2. Literature Review and the Present Study 3. Diversification Processes and Least Effort Principle 4. Research Materials and Methods 5. Syntactic Dependency Relations and Related Properties 6. Discourse Dependency Relations 7. Concluding Remarks