Key topics addressed include getting texts ready for syntactic analysis; the relevant syntactic phenomena and the sorts of concepts normally used to explain them--and how the basic categories of traditional syntactic analysis, derived from the languages that form the basis of the European tradition, need to be rethought for different languages; and the range of syntactic frameworks outside the Chomskyan tradition available to those working syntactic research.

It thus affects the performance of statistical tagging tools and may also have a negative impact on the complexity of pattern-based parsing rules to be defined at a later stage of data processing, when a tool for syntactic analysis is designed.

4) For the syntactic analysis of gestures, we consider Jakobson's concepts of selection of linguistic signs from the paradigmatic level and their combination on the syntagmatic level.