Morphosyntactic Expression in Functional Grammar / / ed. by Casper de Groot, Kees Hengeveld.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2012]
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Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Functional Grammar Series [FGS] , 27
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Physical Description:1 online resource (534 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • i-iv
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Agreement: More arguments for the dynamic expression model
  • Constituent ordering in the expression component of Functional Grammar
  • Dynamic expression in Functional Discourse Grammar
  • Noun incorporation in Functional Discourse Grammar
  • Morphosyntactic templates
  • A crosslinguistic study of ‘locative inversion’: Evidence for the Functional Discourse Grammar model
  • The agreement cross-reference continuum: Person marking in FG
  • The explanatory power of typological hierarchies: Developmental perspectives on non-verbal predication
  • Non-verbal predicability and copula support rule in Spanish Sign Language
  • A new view on the semantics and pragmatics of operators of aspect, tense and quantification
  • Exclamation: Sentence type, illocution or modality?
  • Close appositions
  • Inversion and the absence of grammatical relations in Plains Cree
  • Direction diathesis and obviation in Functional Grammar: The case of the inverse in Mapudungun, an indigenous language of south central Chile
  • Unexpected insertion or omission of an absolutive marker as an icon of a surprising turn of events in discourse
  • Pronominal expression rule ordering in Danish and the question of a discourse grammar
  • Index of names
  • Index of languages
  • Index of subjects