From the archive · Monday, 7 September 2026

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Éléments de syntaxe structurale

Lucien Tesnière

Proposes that a sentence's structure is a hierarchy of dependency relations radiating from the verb rather than a nested arrangement of phrases, founding dependency grammar as an alternative to constituency-based syntax.

Level: Advanced
Access: Free
Length: —
Copy: link checked 17 Sept 2026
Filed under: Morphology & Syntax

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