Dependency analysis is increasingly used in computational linguistics and cognitive science. Surprisingly, compared with studies based on phrase structures, quantitative methods and dependency structure are rarely integrated in research.This is the first book that collects original contributions which quantitatively analyze dependency structures across different languages and text genres.

• Preface 6
• Contents 12
• Dependency, Corpora and Cognition 14
• Interrelations among Dependency Tree Widths, Heights and Sentence Lengths 44
• Quantitative Analysis of Syntactic Dependency in Czech 66
• Dissortativity in a Bipartite Network of Dependency Relations and Communicative Functions 84
• Empirical Analyses of Valency Structures 106
• Regular Dynamic Patterns of Verbal Valency Ellipsis in Modern Spoken Chinese 114
• Negentropy of Dependency Types and Parts of Speech in the Clause 132
• Dynamic Valency and Dependency Distance 158
• Minimization and Probability Distribution of Dependency Distance in the Process of Second Language Acquisition 180
• Influences of Dependency Distance on the Syntactic Development of Deaf and Hard-ofhearing Students 204
• Positional Aspects of Dependency Distance 226
• Dependency Distance and Direction of English Relative Clauses 252
• Differences between English Subject Postmodifiers and Object Post-modifiers: From the Perspective of Dependency Distance 274