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Is there a paradigmatic formalism for dependency grammars?
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What you're seeing is more of an illusion of history. Both constituency and dependency analysis have their origins in theories of syntax. It is an accident of history that the most famous algorithmic formalisation of syntactic analysis is based on constituent analysis.
Both produce trees and can therefore be subjected to tree analysis and graph theory. Both dependency and constituent-based grammars can be generative and non-generative and therefore will be concerned with different aspects of the formalism.
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