Types Of Syntagmatic Grammatical Relations And Their Representation

The paper reviews the kinds of representation of syntagmatic grammatical relations typically empl~'ed in grammar models used in computational linguistics. Exemplars of dependencyonly, constituency-only and hybrid constituencydependency approaches will be considered. In a move away fi'om the much discussed question 'Constituency or dependency?', the purpose of the paper is to ask more radically: 'Are constituency and dependency sufficient at all to represent the kinds of syntagmatic patterning we find in language?' Discussing three problem cases for representation with constituency/dependency coordinate structure, information structure and agreement, I argue for a more diversified view of syntagmatic structure. 1 I n t r o d u c t i o n : t h e g o a l s o f t h i s