
Functional Descriptions
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The majority of papers included in the volume derive from the 19th International Systemic Functional Congress at Macquarie University.
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- FUNCTIONAL DESCRIPTIONS THEORY IN PRACTICE
- Editorial page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Acknowledgments
- Table of Contents
- About the Authors
- Theories, Maps and Descriptions: An Introduction
- 1. Function and description
- 2. Functional descriptions: some fundamental concepts
- 3. Universal descriptions: Vision without perspective?
- 4. About the chapters in this volume
- 5 Conclusion
- References:
- 1. On Grammar and Grammatics
- 1. The problem
- 2. Grammar and grammatics
- 3. Defining grammar
- 4. The emergence of grammar through time
- 5. Grammar in semiotic function
- 6. Grammar as theory
- 7. How big is a grammar?
- 8. How does your grammar grow?
- 9. Grammar as multiple perspectives
- 10. Indeterminacy in grammar
- 11. Some matching features
- 12. Paradigmatic orientation and delicacy
- 13. A note on delicacy
- 14. A note on the corpus
- 15. Trinocular vision
- 16. Indeterminacy in grammatics
- 17. A note on realisation and instantiation
- 18. Realisation and instantiation: some specific analogies
- 19. Centricity
- 20. A final note on grammatics
- References
- 2. On the Idea of Theory-Neutral Descriptions
- 1. New challenges to linguistic description
- 2. The disjunction between theory and description
- 3. Construing theory-description as a semiotic resource
- 4. The construction of theoretical meaning
- 5. Meeting new descriptive challenges
- 6. Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- 3. Ditransitivity and Possession
- 1. Introduction: ditransitivity and dative alternation
- 2. Relational transitivity
- 3. The eight-cell ditrans paradigm of the verb attribute
- 4. A general semantico-grammatical model of ditransitivity
- 5. Conclusion
- Notes
- Data Sources
- References
- 4. So Grammarians Haven't the Faintest Idea: Reconciling Lexis-oriented and Grammar-oriented Approaches to Language
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Lexis, delicacy, dependency and rank
- 3. The place of lexis in the lexicogrammar
- 4. A worked example
- 5. Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- 5. The Semantics of Get-Passives
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Criteria for the classification of get-passives
- 3. Semantic features of get-passives
- Notes
- Abbreviations:
- Data Sources:
- References
- 6. Causation in Dutch and French: Interpersonal aspects
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Causative constructions in Dutch and French
- 3. The semantics of causation
- 4. Realising the causative situation
- 5. Analytic causatives: an interpersonal interpretation
- 6. Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- 7. Process Types in Finnish: Implicate Order, Covert Categories, and Prototypes
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Issues to be discussed
- 3. Implicate order, covert categories, and prototypes
- 4. Experientially defined clause types in Finnish
- 5. Concluding remarks
- Notes
- Abbreviations
- References
- 8. The 'Complement' in Chinese Grammar: A Functional Reinterpretation
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The scope of the term 'complement'
- 3. The postverb: class features
- 4. The 'postverb': functional features
- 5. Experiential functions: the system of Phase
- 6. Textual functions in Chinese: a reinterpretation of 'complement'
- 7. Conclusion
- Notes
- Abbreviations
- Transcription
- References
- 9. Pitjantjatjara Processes: An Australian Experiential Grammar
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Material processes
- 3. Mental processes: perception and reaction
- 4. Verbal processes: saying
- 5. Behavioural processes
- 6. Relational processes: being and having
- 7. Topological perspective on process types
- 8. Conclusion: comparing grammars in a post-colonial context
- Notes
- Abbreviations
- References
- 10. Metalinguistic diversity: the Case from Case
- 1. Metalinguistic relativity
- 2. Metalinguistic diversity
- 3. Issues
- 4. Metalinguistic diversity
- Notes
- References
- Index
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