Evaluation critique des modèles graduels et non graduels de l’intégration syntaxique

There are two ways of analysing syntactic dependencies: the most common one assumes a continuum from integration to juxtaposition. The second one adopts a non-gradual perspective of syntactic integration. At first, we present models which postulate a continuum of syntactic integration. In a second step, we present two frameworks that postulate the existence of two modes of utterances’ organization, a micro-syntactic level and a macro-syntactic level: these approaches, based in particular on the concept of government (“rection” in French), adopt a non-gradual perspective of syntactic integration, i.e. they do not distinguish degrees of grammatical dependency. Our study compares the gradual and non-gradual approaches, with the aim of identifying the theoretical implications for modeling syntactic dependencies.