13. Dependency Grammar
Timothy Osborne · 2019
Dependency Grammar (DG) is a family of approaches to the study of syntax of natural languages that all take dependency as the principle organizing words into greater units of syntax (phrases and clauses). This contribution examines some of the definitional properties that distinguish syntax in terms of dependencies from syntax in terms of the constituencies of phrase structure grammar. It discusses the tools that dependency grammarians use to analyze sentence structure and it considers the goals that they pursue as well as the data they consider and produce in the process. It also presents the arguments in favor of doing syntax in terms of dependencies, these arguments being simplicity and accuracy.