Grammaire de dépendanceOn désigne par grammaire de dépendance une approche de la syntaxe fondée par Lucien Tesnière. Elle se distingue par la place centrale donnée à une structure hiérarchique, appelée Stemma par Lucien Tesnière, mais plus connue aujourd'hui sous le terme d’arbre de dépendance. L'arbre de dépendance est un arbre, au sens mathématique du terme, représentant les liens syntaxiques entre les mots d'une phrase. Les grammaires de dépendance ne réfèrent donc pas à un cadre théorique restreint, mais la notion de dépendance peut être explicite ou implicite dans la formalisation des règles syntaxiques.
Dependent-marking languageA dependent-marking language has grammatical markers of agreement and case government between the words of phrases that tend to appear more on dependents than on heads. The distinction between head-marking and dependent-marking was first explored by Johanna Nichols in 1986, and has since become a central criterion in language typology in which languages are classified according to whether they are more head-marking or dependent-marking. Many languages employ both head and dependent-marking, but some employ double-marking, and yet others employ zero-marking.
Noun phraseA noun phrase, or nominal (phrase), is a phrase that has a noun or pronoun as its head or performs the same grammatical function as a noun. Noun phrases are very common cross-linguistically, and they may be the most frequently occurring phrase type. Noun phrases often function as verb subjects and objects, as predicative expressions and as the complements of prepositions. Noun phrases can be embedded inside each other; for instance, the noun phrase some of his constituents contains the shorter noun phrase his constituents.
Adjective phraseAn adjective phrase (or adjectival phrase) is a phrase whose head is an adjective. Almost any grammar or syntax textbook or dictionary of linguistics terminology defines the adjective phrase in a similar way, e.g. Kesner Bland (1996:499), Crystal (1996:9), Greenbaum (1996:288ff.), Haegeman and Guéron (1999:70f.), Brinton (2000:172f.), Jurafsky and Martin (2000:362). The adjective can initiate the phrase (e.g. fond of steak), conclude the phrase (e.g. very happy), or appear in a medial position (e.g.
Determiner phraseIn linguistics, a determiner phrase (DP) is a type of phrase headed by a determiner such as many. Controversially, many approaches, take a phrase like not very many apples to be a DP, headed, in this case, by the determiner many. This is called the DP analysis or the DP hypothesis. Others reject this analysis in favor of the more traditional NP (noun phrase or nominal phrase) analysis where apples would be the head of the phrase in which the DP not very many is merely a dependent.
Expression (linguistique)Dans l’étude de la langue (grammaire, linguistique, philosophie du langage), une expression est un mot ou un groupe de mots consécutifs délimité arbitrairement. Elle est représentée par un signe. En grammaire, l’analyse syntaxique scinde le texte en expressions appelées phrases et scinde les phrases en expressions appelées syntagmes, selon leur fonction dans la phrase. En philosophie du langage, on distingue les expressions nominales comme celles ayant une référence dans le monde réel, telles que les noms propres et les descriptions définies.
Head-marking languageA language is head-marking if the grammatical marks showing agreement between different words of a phrase tend to be placed on the heads (or nuclei) of phrases, rather than on the modifiers or dependents. Many languages employ both head-marking and dependent-marking, and some languages double up and are thus double-marking. The concept of head/dependent-marking was proposed by Johanna Nichols in 1986 and has come to be widely used as a basic category in linguistic typology.
Programme minimalisteLe programme minimaliste est la forme prise par la recherche scientifique en grammaire générative depuis le milieu des années 1990 et la publication par le linguiste américain Noam Chomsky de son livre The Minimalist Program. Ce programme de recherche est conduit par des linguistes, des psychologues et des neurolinguistes. Pour en comprendre la portée et élucider la raison d'être de son émergence, il faut retracer l'histoire et les inflexions de ce programme de recherche.
Grammatical modifierIn linguistics, a modifier is an optional element in phrase structure or clause structure which modifies the meaning of another element in the structure. For instance, the adjective "red" acts as a modifier in the noun phrase "red ball", providing extra details about which particular ball is being referred to. Similarly, the adverb "quickly" acts as a modifier in the verb phrase "run quickly". Modification can be considered a high-level domain of the functions of language, on par with predication and reference.
Government and binding theoryGovernment and binding (GB, GBT) is a theory of syntax and a phrase structure grammar in the tradition of transformational grammar developed principally by Noam Chomsky in the 1980s. This theory is a radical revision of his earlier theories and was later revised in The Minimalist Program (1995) and several subsequent papers, the latest being Three Factors in Language Design (2005). Although there is a large literature on government and binding theory which is not written by Chomsky, Chomsky's papers have been foundational in setting the research agenda.
