Working with Functional Grammar

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Descriptive and Computational Applications

Mike Hannay Elseline Vester(Editor)

De Gruyter Mouton (Publisher)

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Published on 6. February 2013

XVIII, 272 pages

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Intro
FOREWORD
LIST OF ABBREVIATTONS
THE SOURCE OF THE DATIVE PERSPECTIVE IN POLISH PSEUDO-REFLEXIVES
1. Introduction
2. The structures to be considered
3. Dative experiencers vs transitive agents
4. Pseudo-reflexives
5. The possessive dative
6. The source of the dative in inchoative-like structures
7. Conclusion
BULGARIAN SE-CONSTRUCTIONS
1. Introduction
2. Types of se-construction in Bulgarian
3. Valency reduction in FG
4. An argument-reduction approach to se-constructions
5. Conclusion
IMPERSONAL CONSTRUCTIONS IN SPANISH
1. Introduction
2. Non-specific agent predications
3. Se -constructions
4. Conclusion
PREDICATE FORMATION IN BANTAWA
1. Introduction
2. Benefactive in Bantawa
3. Causative in Bantawa
4. Progressive and perfective aspect in Bantawa
5. Conclusion
RESTRICTIVE RELATIVES IN ARABIC: A FUNCTIONAL APPROACH
1. Introduction
2. The facts
3. Restrictive relative formation
4. Conclusion
ON THE SUBJECTHOOD OF EXISTENTIAL THERE
1. Introduction
2. Coding and behavioural properties of the existential there
3. Raising out of existential constructions
4. An extension of the no-subject-assignment issue
5. Conclusion
SEMANTIC FUNCTIONS AND SUBJECT ASSIGNMENT REVISITED. EVIDENCE FROM CLASSICAL SANSKRIT
1. Introduction
2. Theoretical preliminaries for handling the Sanskrit data
3. The Sanskrit verbal system
4. The corpus
5. Analysis of the corpus
6. An alternative analysis
7. Conclusion
THE SATELLITE STATUS OF GERUND AND GERUNDIVE IN LATIN
1. Introduction
2. The layered sentence model
3. The use of gerund and gerundive
4. Gerund and gerundive as satellites
5. Conclusion
GETTING AHEAD WITH PREDICATIONAL TERMS, NOUN PREDICATION TERMS, AND DOMINANT PARTICIPLES
1. Introduction
2. The basic idea
3. Predicational terms
4. Noun predication terms
5. Dominant participle terms
6. A typology of terms
LET'S GET OUR HEADS TOGETHER: A REPLY TO VAN DER AUWERA
1. Introduction
2. Dominant-participle constructions
3. Heads
4. Nominalizations
5. 'Noun predication terms'
6. Conclusion
REFERENTIALITY AND THE REPRESENTATION OF PREDICATE NOMINALS
1. Introduction
2. Dik's treatment of non-verbal predicates
3. Referential and non-referential nominal predicates
4. (Non-)referentiality and (in)definiteness
5. A typology of copular sentence types
6. The representation of classifying and identifying constructions
7. Conclusion
MENTAL PROCESSES AND RELATIONAL VERBS AND THE TYPOLOGY OF STATES OF AFFAIRS IN FG
1. Introduction
2. Mental, relational and existential processes
3. Observations and questions
4. Experiences in FG
5. Relational verbs in FG
6. Conclusion
MORPHOLOGY AND THE TYPOLOGY OF EXPRESSION RULES
1. Introduction
2. Trigger versus placement rules
3. Triggers
4. Primary and secondary triggers
5. Ordering
6. Morphology
7. Conclusion
HOW TO BUILD A NATURAL LANGUAGE USER
1. Introduction
2. One cognitive language?
3. Some relevant properties of Functional Grammar
4. Knowledge representation
5. Logic
6. Translation
7. Results obtained so far
FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR AS A UNIFICATION GRAMMAR: IS IT A WORTHWHILE INVESTIGATION?
1. Introduction
2. The unification formalism
3. Towards a unification grammar realization of FG
4. Results and code
5. Conclusion
A FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR MACHINE
1. Introduction
2. An overview of FGM
3. Underlying representations
4. Expression rules
5. The lexicon
6. Procedural aspects: sentence generation
7. Final remarks
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