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A New Architecture for Functional Grammar

Author : J. Lachlan Mackenzie
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110197111
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Book Synopsis A New Architecture for Functional Grammar by : J. Lachlan Mackenzie

Download or read book A New Architecture for Functional Grammar written by J. Lachlan Mackenzie and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-08-22 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, which represents a major advance on Simon Dik's final statement of the theory (1997), lays the foundation for the future evolution of FG towards a Functional Discourse Grammar. It rises to the double challenge of specifying the interface between discourse and grammar and of detailing the expression rules that link semantic representation and morphosyntactic form. The opening chapter, by Kees Hengeveld, sets out in programmatic form a new architecture for FG which both preserves the best of the traditional model and offers a place for numerous recent insights. The remaining chapters are devoted to refining and developing the programme laid down by Hengeveld, bringing in data from a range of languages as well as theoretical insights inspired by adjoining frameworks. Of special interest are an account by Matthew Anstey of how current proposals arise from the history of FG and various chapters in which the model is brought much closer to an account of real-time language production, notably including the first ever detailed account of the workings of expression rules, by Dik Bakker and Anna Siewierska. The final chapter, also by Hengeveld, draws together the findings of the various chapters, culminating in an elaborated model that represents the most sophisticated statement of Functional Grammar currently available. The volume thus gives a coherent account of FG as a theory which combines formal explicitness with a broad account of language functions.

Crucial Readings in Functional Grammar

Author : Matthew P. Anstey
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110901196
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Book Synopsis Crucial Readings in Functional Grammar by : Matthew P. Anstey

Download or read book Crucial Readings in Functional Grammar written by Matthew P. Anstey and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crucial Readings in Functional Grammar is an invaluable resource to anyone working in Functional Grammar, student and scholar alike. It contains important articles that have led to new avenues of research in the theory beyond Dik's two-volume Functional Grammar (1997), each concluded with a short paragraph with suggestions for further research. The book also contains an introduction to current Functional Grammar theory by the editors. Crucial Readings is unique in bringing together in one volume the various ideas that complement Dik's canonical presentation of the theory. The editorial contributions provide a comprehensive review of Functional Grammar publications.

The Noun Phrase in Functional Discourse Grammar

Author : Daniel García Velasco
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9783110198676
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (986 download)

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Book Synopsis The Noun Phrase in Functional Discourse Grammar by : Daniel García Velasco

Download or read book The Noun Phrase in Functional Discourse Grammar written by Daniel García Velasco and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The articles in this volume analyse the noun phrase within the framework of Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG), the successor to Simon C. Dik's Functional Grammar. In its current form, FDG has an explicit top-down organization and distinguishes four hierarchically organized, interacting levels: (i) the interpersonal level (language as communicational process), (ii) the representational level (language as a carrier of content), (iii) the morphosyntactic level and (iv) the phonological level. Together they constitute the grammatical component, which in its turn interacts with a cognitive and a communicative component. This comprehensive approach to linguistic analysis is also reflected in this volume, which contains rich and substantial contributions concerning many different aspects of the noun phrase. At the same time, the analysis of a major linguistic construction from various perspectives is an excellent way to test a new model of grammar with regard to some of the standards of adequacy for linguistic theories. The book contains several papers dealing with matters of representation and formalization of the noun phrase (the articles by Kees Hengeveld, José Luis González Escribano, Jan Rijkhoff and Evelien Keizer). Other contributors are more concerned with the practical application of the model with regard to discourse-interpersonal matters (Chris Butler, John H. Connolly), whereas the chapters by Dik Bakker and Roland Pfau and by Daniel García Velasco deal with morphosyntactic issues. In all, the variety of issues addressed and the range of languages considered prove that one of the important advantages of the FDG model is precisely the fact that grammatical phenomena can be treated from a semantic, pragmatic, morpho-syntactic, phonological or textual perspective in a coherent fashion.

Studies in Functional Discourse Grammar

Author : J. Lachlan Mackenzie
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039106967
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (69 download)

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Book Synopsis Studies in Functional Discourse Grammar by : J. Lachlan Mackenzie

Download or read book Studies in Functional Discourse Grammar written by J. Lachlan Mackenzie and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains eight studies on Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG), with work by FDG's foremost proponents, who provide both an introduction to the theory and a glimpse of current research projects. FDG derives its name from taking the discourse act as the basic unit of linguistic analysis. Each such unit receives four parallel analyses displaying its interpersonal, representational, morphosyntactic and phonological characteristics respectively. What is striking about the emergence of FDG is that it enters into lively debate with various other contemporary frameworks that share its functionalist orientation. This facet of FDG is highlighted in this book, every chapter of which brings out the interconnectedness of current theoretical trends.

Morphosyntactic Expression in Functional Grammar

Author : Casper de Groot
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110920832
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Book Synopsis Morphosyntactic Expression in Functional Grammar by : Casper de Groot

Download or read book Morphosyntactic Expression in Functional Grammar written by Casper de Groot and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-05-02 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morphological and syntactic issues have received relatively little attention in Functional Grammar, due to the fact that this grammatical model, given its functional orientation, was primarily concerned with developing its pragmatic and semantic components. Now that these have been solidly developed, this book turns to the further development of the syntactic and morphological components of the model. Two recent developments receive pride of place: Bakker's Dynamic Expression Model and Hengeveld and Mackenzie's Functional Discourse Grammar. The first model aims at accounting for the complex interactions that one finds in many languages between the sets of expression rules that have to account for form on the one hand and those that establish order on the other. The second model takes a further step by considering morphosyntactic and phonological representations to be part of the underlying structure of the grammar rather than as the output of that grammar, contrary to the original assumptions in FG. The book accordingly contains synopses of these two proposals as well as applications of these to a variety of linguistic phenomena. Further articles provide detailed analyses of a range of semantic and pragmatic categories and their morphosyntactic expression in a wide variety of languages. The articles in this book contain data on some 60 different languages, including focused articles on phenomena in Arabic, Danish, English, Lengua de Señas Española, Mapudungun, Plains Cree, and Tanggu. In all, the contributions to this volume show that the issue of morphosyntactic expression in Functional Grammar is very much alive and moving into promising new directions, while at the same time contributing to a better understanding of a large number of morphosyntactic phenomena in a wide variety of languages.

Mismatch

Author : Elaine Francis
Publisher : Center for the Study of Language and Information Publica Tion
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Book Synopsis Mismatch by : Elaine Francis

Download or read book Mismatch written by Elaine Francis and published by Center for the Study of Language and Information Publica Tion. This book was released on 2003 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linguistic mismatch phenomena involve semiotic functions that attach to forms in defiance of grammatical design features. Noun phrases, when used as predicates, provide one example: how do predicate nominals correspond to our theories of what nouns mean? How do such phenomena challenge traditional conceptions of grammar? How do competing theories of the syntax-semantics interface stand up when confronted with mismatch phenomena? Mismatch addresses these questions through the efforts of some of the most original thinkers in syntactic and semantic theory, exploring a wide variety of mismatch phenomena in a broad sampling of languages.

The Dynamics of Language Use

Author : Christopher Butler
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027253835
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (538 download)

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Book Synopsis The Dynamics of Language Use by : Christopher Butler

Download or read book The Dynamics of Language Use written by Christopher Butler and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together a collection of articles characterized by two main themes: the contrastive study of parallel phenomena in two or more languages, and an essentially functional approach in which language is regarded, first and foremost, as a rich and complex communication system, inextricably embedded in sociocultural and psychological contexts of use. The majority of the studies reported are empirical in nature, many making use of corpora or other textual materials in the language(s) under investigation. The book begins with an introductory section in which the editors provide surveys of the state of the art in both functional and contrastive linguistics. The other five sections of the volume are devoted to (i) a cognitive perspective on form and function, (ii) information structure, (iii) collocations and formulaic language, (iv) language learning, and (v) discourse and culture.

Functional Discourse Grammar

Author : Kees Hengeveld
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191566640
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Book Synopsis Functional Discourse Grammar by : Kees Hengeveld

Download or read book Functional Discourse Grammar written by Kees Hengeveld and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-08-08 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive presentation of Functional Discourse Grammar, a new and important theory of language structure. The authors set out its nature and origins and show how it relates to contemporary linguistic theory. They demonstrate and test its explanatory power and descriptive utility against linguistic facts from over 150 languages across a wide range of linguistic families. After a full introduction the book is divided into chapters concerned with the four levels of grammatical representation - pragmatic, semantic, morphosyntactic, and phonological - each of which has its own hierarchical structure. Functional Discourse Grammar offers a thorough account of how the use and meaning of language influence linguistic form by conditioning two levels of formulation which feed into two levels of encoding, all with their own specific characteristics. The book offers an ideal introduction to the theory and its applications in typology and description for scholars in linguistics and related fields from graduate students upwards.

Interfaces in Functional Discourse Grammar

Author : Lucía Contreras-García
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110711710
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Interfaces in Functional Discourse Grammar by : Lucía Contreras-García

Download or read book Interfaces in Functional Discourse Grammar written by Lucía Contreras-García and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-08-23 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In grammar design, a basic distinction is made between derivational and modular architectures. This raises the question of which organization of grammar can deal with linguistic phenomena more appropriately. The studies contained in the present volume explore the interface relations between different levels of linguistic representation in Functional Discourse Grammar as presented in Hengeveld and Mackenzie (2008) and Keizer (2015). This theory analyses linguistic expressions at four linguistic levels: interpersonal, representational, morphosyntactic and phonological. The articles address issues such as the possible correspondences and mismatches between those levels as well as the conditions which constrain the combinations of levels in well-formed expressions. Additionally, the theory is tested by examining various grammatical phenomena with a focus both on the English language and on typological adequacy: anaphora, raising, phonological reduction, noun incorporation, reflexives and reciprocals, serial verbs, the passive voice, time measurement constructions, coordination, nominal modification, and connectives. Overall, the volume provides both theoretical and descriptive insights which are of relevance to linguistics in general.

A Functional Discourse Grammar Theory of Grammaticalization

Author : Riccardo Giomi
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004520570
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Book Synopsis A Functional Discourse Grammar Theory of Grammaticalization by : Riccardo Giomi

Download or read book A Functional Discourse Grammar Theory of Grammaticalization written by Riccardo Giomi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-01-30 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume surveys over a hundred diachronic changes from typologically diverse languages and concludes that the definitional property of meaning change in grammaticalization is that it never results in a decrease in the semantic or pragmatic scope of the construction.

Functional Perspectives on Grammar and Discourse

Author : Christopher Butler
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027230959
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (39 download)

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Book Synopsis Functional Perspectives on Grammar and Discourse by : Christopher Butler

Download or read book Functional Perspectives on Grammar and Discourse written by Christopher Butler and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, a tribute to Angela Downing, consists of twenty papers taking a broadly functional perspective on language, with topics ranging from the general (grammar as an evolutionary product, text comprehension, integrative linguistics) to particular aspects of the grammars of languages (Bulgarian, English, Icelandic, Spanish, Swedish). The more specific papers are sequenced according to Halliday s division into ideational, textual and interpersonal aspects of the grammar, and cover a wide range of areas, including aspect, argument structure, noun phrase/nominal group structure and nominalisations, pronominal clitics, theme in relation to writing skills, discourse structures and markers, the role of attention in conversation, the functions of topic, phatic communion, subjectification, formulaic language and modality. A recurrent theme in the volume is the use of corpus materials in order to base functional descriptions on authentic productions. Overall, the volume constitutes a panoramic but nevertheless detailed view of some important current trends in functional linguistics.

Functional Discourse Grammar

Author : Kees Hengeveld
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199278105
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Book Synopsis Functional Discourse Grammar by : Kees Hengeveld

Download or read book Functional Discourse Grammar written by Kees Hengeveld and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-08-07 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive presentation of Functional Discourse Grammar. The authors set out its nature and origins and show how it relates to contemporary linguistic theory. They demonstrate and test its explanatory power and descriptive utility against linguistic facts from over 150 languages across a full range of linguistic families.

Structure and Function: Approaches to the simplex clause

Author : Christopher Butler
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027230706
Total Pages : 593 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Structure and Function: Approaches to the simplex clause by : Christopher Butler

Download or read book Structure and Function: Approaches to the simplex clause written by Christopher Butler and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume one of a two volume set outlining and comparing three approaches to the study of language labelled 'structural-functionalist': functional grammar (FG); role and reference grammar (RRG); and systemic functional grammar (SFG).

ON THE ARCHITECTURE OF WORDS. APPLICATIONS OF MEANING STUDIES

Author : GODED RAMBAUD Margarita
Publisher : Editorial UNED
ISBN 13 : 8436270223
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (362 download)

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Book Synopsis ON THE ARCHITECTURE OF WORDS. APPLICATIONS OF MEANING STUDIES by : GODED RAMBAUD Margarita

Download or read book ON THE ARCHITECTURE OF WORDS. APPLICATIONS OF MEANING STUDIES written by GODED RAMBAUD Margarita and published by Editorial UNED. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In light of today’s extensive use of digital communication, this volume focuses on how to understand and manage the various types of linguistically-based products that facilitate the use and extraction of information. Including conceptual and terminological databases, digital dictionaries, thesauri, language corpora, and ontologies, they all contribute to the development and improvement of language industries, such as those devoted to automatic translation, knowledge management, knowledge retrieval, linguistic data analysis, and so on. As the theoretical background underlying these applications is outlined in detail in the earlier chapters of the book, the reader is able to establish the necessary links between the various but related kinds of linguistic –and, in particular, semantic– applications. A general review of several theories and linguistic models that influence the practical application of Meaning studies to the new technologies is also included. This book is aimed at students and researchers of Linguistics, as well as those with a basic knowledge of Linguistics and Semantics who are interested in the on-going development of the handling of meaning and its practical usage

Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar

Author : M.A.K. Halliday
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135983488
Total Pages : 1060 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Book Synopsis Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar by : M.A.K. Halliday

Download or read book Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar written by M.A.K. Halliday and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-11 with total page 1060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully updated and revised, this fourth edition of Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar explains the principles of systemic functional grammar, enabling the reader to understand and apply them in any context. Halliday's innovative approach of engaging with grammar through discourse has become a worldwide phenomenon in linguistics. Updates to the new edition include: Recent uses of systemic functional linguistics to provide further guidance for students, scholars and researchers More on the ecology of grammar, illustrating how each major system serves to realise a semantic system A systematic indexing and classification of examples More from corpora, thus allowing for easy access to data Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar, Fourth Edition, is the standard reference text for systemic functional linguistics and an ideal introduction for students and scholars interested in the relation between grammar, meaning and discourse.

Structural-functional Studies in English Grammar

Author : Michael Hannay
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027230935
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (39 download)

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Book Synopsis Structural-functional Studies in English Grammar by : Michael Hannay

Download or read book Structural-functional Studies in English Grammar written by Michael Hannay and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection presents a number of studies in the lexico-grammar of English which focus on the one hand on close reading of language in context and on the other hand on current functional theoretical concerns. The various contributions represent distinct functionalist models of language, including Functional Grammar and Functional Discourse Grammar, Systemic-Functional Grammar, Role and Reference Grammar, Cognitive Grammar and Construction Grammar. Taken together, however, they typify current work being conducted from the grammatical perspective within the functionalist enterprise, emphasizing on the relation between structure and usage. A fundamental goal of the enterprise is to identify linguistic structures which are constrained by specific features of use, or which actually encode specific features of use, as many of the contributions here show.

Aspects of Grammatical Architecture

Author : Alain Rouveret
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351622196
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Aspects of Grammatical Architecture written by Alain Rouveret and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects eleven papers written between 1991 and 2016, some of them unpublished, which explore various aspects of the architecture of grammar in a minimalist perspective. The phenomena that are brought to bear on the architectural issue come from a range of languages, among them French, European Portuguese, Welsh, German and English, and include clitic placement, expletive pronouns, resumption, causative structures, copulative and existential constructions, VP ellipsis, as well as the distinction between the SVO, VSO and V2 linguistic types. This book sheds a new light on the division of labor between components and paves the way for further research on grammatical architecture.