Morphosyntactic Expression in Functional Grammar

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2005

Morphosyntactic Expression in Functional Grammar

Edited by: Casper de Groot and Kees Hengeveld

Volume 27 in the series Functional Grammar Series [FGS]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110920833

Overview
Contents

About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Casper de Groot is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Theoretical Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Kees Hengeveld is Professor at the Department of Theoretical Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Reviews

"If the editors of the Functional Grammar Series intended it to go out with a bang, they have certainly succeeded. This is a very valuable collection of papers that contributes both to the development of the theory into one that truly takes discourse into account, as well as to the understanding of problematic phenomena in a variety of languages. Linguists already working within F(D)G or in other functionally oriented frameworks will find much to inspire them in this book."
Inge Genee in: Linguistlist 16.3450/2005

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Preface Casper de Groot and Kees Hengeveld Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	v
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Agreement: More arguments for the dynamic expression model Dik Bakker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Constituent ordering in the expression component of Functional Grammar John H. Connolly Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
Dynamic expression in Functional Discourse Grammar Kees Hengeveld Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Noun incorporation in Functional Discourse Grammar Niels Smit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
Morphosyntactic templates Casper de Groot Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
A crosslinguistic study of ‘locative inversion’: Evidence for the Functional Discourse Grammar model Francis Cornish Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
The agreement cross-reference continuum: Person marking in FG Anna Siewierska and Dik Bakker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
The explanatory power of typological hierarchies: Developmental perspectives on non-verbal predication Eva H. van Lier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
Non-verbal predicability and copula support rule in Spanish Sign Language Ángel Herrero-Blanco and Ventura Salazar-García Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
A new view on the semantics and pragmatics of operators of aspect, tense and quantification Annerieke Boland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	317
Exclamation: Sentence type, illocution or modality? Ahmed Moutaouakil Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	351
Close appositions Evelien Keizer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	381
Inversion and the absence of grammatical relations in Plains Cree Arok Wolvengrey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	419
Direction diathesis and obviation in Functional Grammar: The case of the inverse in Mapudungun, an indigenous language of south central Chile Ole Nedergaard Thomsen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	447
Unexpected insertion or omission of an absolutive marker as an icon of a surprising turn of events in discourse Johan Lotterman and J. Lachlan Mackenzie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	483
Pronominal expression rule ordering in Danish and the question of a discourse grammar Lisbeth Falster Jakobsen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	503
Index of names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	525
Index of languages Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	529
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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Researchers and Students interested in Functional Grammar and Morphosyntactic Issues; Scholars working in the Field of Descriptive Linguistics; Academic Libraries; Institutes
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 534
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 15
- Tables: 18
Keywords: Functionalism (linguistics); syntax; Morphology

eBook

Published: May 2, 2012
ISBN: 9783110920833

Hardcover

Published: May 19, 2005
ISBN: 9783110183658