%0 Journal Article %T Various Views of Dependency from the Perspective of Definitions %A Zhixiu Zhang %J Open Journal of Modern Linguistics %P 277-280 %@ 2164-2834 %D 2015 %I Scientific Research Publishing %R 10.4236/ojml.2015.53024 %X Focused on the definitions of dependency, the author illustrates that there are various views of dependency from the dependency theory of Tesni¨¨re to the modern cognitive linguistics. The followers of Tesni¨¨re only study dependency from the perspective of the relations between words, but Tesni¨¨re is to research the intrinsic nature of languages, so Tesni¨¨re¡¯ dependency theory is necessary to be further studied. %K Dependency %K Definition %K Nature %K Relation %U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=57364