Dependency Relations & Their Types in English Syntax

This video talks about dependency relations and their types in English syntax. Dependency grammar concentrates on the relational aspect of syntax, while constituent-structure grammar focuses on the constituent-structure aspect. The grammatical relations discussed in the previous chapter express a kind of dependency holding between the verb (or other predicating element) and the NPs and/or PPs in the clause. Other types of dependencies exist as well, for example, the dependence of a modifier on the element it modifies. With respect to determining the form class of an item, the important questions to ask are ‘what elements can it cooccur with?’ and ‘what morphosyntactic environment(s) can it occur in?’ The relation that a morphosyntactic element has to the elements it cooccurs with is termed a syntagmatic relation, and it is one of the two fundamental relations that underlie language as a structural system. #Dependency_Relations_&_Their_Types_in_English_Syntax #Unilateral_Relations #Bilateral_relations