The monograph presents the Meaning-Text approach applied to the domain of syntax from a
typological angle it deals with several long-standing syntactic problems on the basis of a
dependency description. Its content can be presented in five parts + an Introduction: The
Introduction explains the architecture of the book and sketches the Meaning-Text linguis-tic
model underlying the subsequent discussion. I. Surface-syntactic relations in the languages of
the world with special studies of subjects and objects. II. Grammatical voice in the
dependency framework: the passive construction in Chinese. III. The relative clause: a calculus
and analysis of possible types the pseudo-relative (headless) clause. IV. Binary conjunctions
(such as IF ... THEN ...) free indefinite pronouns ([He went] nobody knows where) and
syntactic idioms. V. Word order: linearization of dependency structures. The monograph offers a
new perspective in syntactic studies. It is strongly typology-oriented (using the data from
typologically diverse languages: English Russian Chinese Korean Basque Georgian etc.) and
based on a system of rigorous definitions of the notions involved which ensures a link with
computational linguistics and Natural Language Processing
