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Publication of I. Mel’čuk in the International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences

The OLST is pleased to announce the recent publication of the article “Dependency in Language” from Igor Mel’čuk in the 2nd edition of the prestigious International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences:

The notion of linguistic dependency is introduced with three major types: semantic, syntactic, and morphological dependencies […]. The three types [and subtypes] of dependency can combine, producing 14 possible combinations of dependencies between two given lexemes in an utterance. Dependency and constituency are cursorily compared; several linguistic phenomena whose description is more conveniently done in terms of dependency are considered (valence and voice, lexical functions, phraseology, paraphrasing, word order).