Author: Michael HannayPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111334317
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
English existentials in functional grammar
Author: Michael HannayPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111334317
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
English Existentials in Functional Grammar
Author: Michael HannayPublisher: De Gruyter Mouton
ISBN: 9783110987201
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Existential Sentences
Author: Michael LumsdenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317933710
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
What is the relationship between the structure of existential sentences and their meaning? How do hearers interpret existential sentences using pragmatic assumptions? This study attempts to account for the relationship between the structure of existential sentences (ES) and their meaning. The study of ES has received a great deal of attention because the construction has complex syntactic properties, is associated with restrictions of a semantic nature, and provides an interesting area for investigation at a pragmatic level.
A Systemic Functional Grammar of English
Author: David BanksPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429885849
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
Providing a simple – but not simplistic – introduction to the Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) of English, this book serves as a launching pad for the beginning student and a review for the more seasoned linguist. With an introduction to SFG through lexicogrammar and the concept of rankshift, this book is the first introduction to SFG (including Appraisal) with examples exclusively sourced from twenty-first century texts. Written for those learning English and English linguistics as a foreign language, this serves as an easy-to-read introduction or refresher course for Systemic Functional Linguistics.
The Oxford Handbook of Universal Grammar
Author: Ian G. RobertsPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199573778
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 673
Book Description
This handbook provides a critical guide to the most central proposition in modern linguistics: the notion, generally known as Universal Grammar, that a universal set of structural principles underlies the grammatical diversity of the world's languages. Part I considers the implications of Universal Grammar for philosophy of mind and the philosophy of language, and examines the history of the theory. Part II focuses on linguistic theory, looking at topics such as explanatory adequacy and how phonology and semantics fit into Universal Grammar. Parts III and IV look respectively at the insights derived from UG-inspired research on language acquisition, and at comparative syntax and language typology, while part V considers the evidence for Universal Grammar in phenomena such as creoles, language pathology, and sign language. The book will be a vital reference for linguists, philosophers, and cognitive scientists.
Crucial Readings in Functional Grammar
Author: Matthew P. AnsteyPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110901196
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
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.
Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar
Author: M.A.K. HallidayPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135983488
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1060
Book Description
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.
A New Architecture for Functional Grammar
Author: J. Lachlan MackenziePublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110197111
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
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.
Pragmatic Functions in a Functional Grammar of Arabic
Author: Ahmed MoutaouakilPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110874180
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Predicate Structure in a Functional Grammar of Hungarian
Author: Casper de GrootPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110250489
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
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