Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Dependency, Corpora and Cognition -- Interrelations among Dependency Tree Widths, Heights and Sentence Lengths -- Quantitative Analysis of Syntactic Dependency in Czech -- Dissortativity in a Bipartite Network of Dependency Relations and Communicative Functions -- Empirical Analyses of Valency Structures -- Regular Dynamic Patterns of Verbal Valency Ellipsis in Modern Spoken Chinese -- Negentropy of Dependency Types and Parts of Speech in the Clause -- Dynamic Valency and Dependency Distance -- Minimization and Probability Distribution of Dependency Distance in the Process of Second Language Acquisition -- Influences of Dependency Distance on the Syntactic Development of Deaf and Hard-ofhearing Students -- Positional Aspects of Dependency Distance -- Dependency Distance and Direction of English Relative Clauses -- Differences between English Subject Postmodifiers and Object Post-modifiers: From the Perspective of Dependency Distance -- How Do Universal Dependencies Distinguish Language Groups? -- A Quantitative Analysis on a Literary Genre Essay's Syntactic Features -- A Multidimensional Model of Syntactic Dependency Trees for Authorship Attribution -- Subject Index -- Author Index -- List of Contributors