{"title":"The evolution of spatial rationales in Tesnière’s stemmas","authors":"N. Mazziotta","doi":"10.18653/v1/W19-7709","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the evolution of the spatial rationales of Tesnière’s syntactic diagrams (stemma). I show that the conventions change from his first attempts to model complete sentences up to the classical stemma he uses in his Elements of structural syntax (1959). From mostly symbolic representations of hierarchy (directed arrows from the dependent to the governor), he shifts to a more configurational one (connected dependents are placed below the governor).","PeriodicalId":443459,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Dependency Linguistics (Depling, SyntaxFest 2019)","volume":"2676 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Dependency Linguistics (Depling, SyntaxFest 2019)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W19-7709","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This paper investigates the evolution of the spatial rationales of Tesnière’s syntactic diagrams (stemma). I show that the conventions change from his first attempts to model complete sentences up to the classical stemma he uses in his Elements of structural syntax (1959). From mostly symbolic representations of hierarchy (directed arrows from the dependent to the governor), he shifts to a more configurational one (connected dependents are placed below the governor).