Structural-Functional Studies in English Grammar
In honour of Lachlan Mackenzie
Published on 29. March 2007
Book
Hardback
393 pages
978-90-272-3093-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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The present volume makes an invaluable contribution to functional-cognitive linguistics in an number of significant ways. -- Francisco Gonzalev-Garcia, University of Almeria, in the Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, Vol. 6 (2008)More details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
855 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-3093-5 (9789027230935)
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In honour of Lachlan Mackenzie
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Content
1. Introduction; 2. Part I. Corpus-based studies; 3. No doubt and related expressions: A functional account (by Simon-Vandenbergen, Anne-Marie); 4. On certainly and zeker (by Byloo, Pieter); 5. Prenominal possessives in English: Function and use (by Keizer, Evelien); 6. Ditransitive clauses in English with special reference to Lancashire dialect (by Siewierska, Anna); 7. 'It was you that told me that, wasn't it?' It-clefts revisited in discourse (by Gomez Gonzalez, Maria de los Angeles); 8. Another take on the notion Subject (by Bakker, Dik); 9. The modal auxiliaries of English, pi-operators in Functional Grammar and "grounding" (by Goossens, Louis); 10. The king is on huntunge: on the relation between progressive and absentive in Old and Early Modern English (by Groot, Casper de); 11. Part II. The architecture of functional models; 12. Mental context and the expression of terms within the English clause: An approach based on Functional Discourse Grammar (by Connolly, John H.); 13. Adverbial conjunctions in Functional Discourse Grammar (by Hengeveld, Kees); 14. Tree tigers and tree elephants: a constructional account of English nominal compounds (by Anstey, Matthew); 15. English constructions from a Dutch perspective: where are the differences? (by Verhagen, Arie); 16. Notes towards an incremental implementation of the Role and Reference Grammar semantics-to-syntax linking algorithm for English (by Butler, Christopher S.); 17. Grammar, flow and procedural knowledge: structure and function at the interface between grammar and discourse (by Harder, Peter); 18. The non-linearity of speech production (by Fortescue, Michael); 19. A speaker/hearer-based grammar: the case of possessives and compounds (by Janssen, Theo); 20. Index