A New Architecture for Functional Grammar

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2004

A New Architecture for Functional Grammar

Edited by: J. Lachlan Mackenzie and María de los Ángeles Gómez-González

Volume 24 in the series Functional Grammar Series [FGS]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110197112

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

J. Lachlan Mackenzie is Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Mariá de los Ángeles Gómez González is Senior Lecturer at Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

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The Architecture of a Functional Discourse Grammar Kees Hengeveld Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Functional Grammar from its inception Matthew P. Anstey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Behind the scenes: Cognition and Functional Discourse Grammar Carlos Inchaurralde Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
The Question of Discourse Representation in Functional Discourse Grammar John Connolly Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
Focus of attention in discourse Francis Cornish Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
The complementarity of the process and pattern interpretations of Functional Grammar Michael Fortescue Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
Functional Discourse Grammar and language production J. Lachlan Mackenzie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Comment clauses, Functional Discourse Grammar and the grammar-discourse interface Peter Harder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
Functional Grammar and the dynamics of discourse María Ángeles Gómez-González Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
The problem of subjective modality in the Functional Grammar model Jean-Christophe Verstraete Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
Remarks on layering in a cognitive-functional language production model Jan Nuyts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
Discourse Structure, the Generalized Parallelism Hypothesis and the Architecture of Functional Grammar Ahmed Moutaouakil Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299
Towards a speaker model of Functional Grammar Dik Bakker and Anna Siewierska Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	325
Epilogue Kees Hengeveld Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	365
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	379

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Students; Functional and Cognitive Linguists; Academic Libraries; Institutes
Pages
- Front matter: 14
- Main content: 393
Keywords: Funktionalismus (Linguistik)

eBook

Published: August 22, 2008
ISBN: 9783110197112

Paperback

Published: July 16, 2004
ISBN: 9783110173567