Functional Discourse Grammar: A Typologically-Based Theory of Language Structure by Kees Hengeveld, ISBN-13: 978-0199278107
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- Publisher: Oxford University Press; 1st edition (September 15, 2008)
- Language: English
- 448 pages
- ISBN-10: 0199278105
- ISBN-13: 978-0199278107
This book is the first comprehensive presentation of Functional Discourse Grammar, a new and important theory of language structure. The authors set out its nature and origins and show how it relates to contemporary linguistic theory. They demonstrate and test its explanatory power and descriptive utility against linguistic facts from over 150 languages across a wide range of linguistic families.
After a full introduction the book is divided into chapters concerned with the four levels of grammatical representation – pragmatic, semantic, morphosyntactic, and phonological – each of which has its own hierarchical structure. Functional Discourse Grammar offers a thorough account of how the use and meaning of language influence linguistic form by conditioning two levels of formulation which feed into two levels of encoding, all with their own specific characteristics. The book offers an ideal introduction to the theory and its applications in typology and description for scholars in linguistics and related fields from graduate students upwards.
Table of Contents:
Contents
Preface
List of tables and figures
Abbreviations
1 Introduction
1.1 Functional Discourse Grammar
1.2 Basic properties
1.2.1 Introduction
1.2.2 Top-down organization
1.2.3 Discourse grammar
1.2.4 Levels of representation
1.2.5 Conceptual Component, Contextual Component, and Output Component
1.3 The architecture of FDG
1.3.1 Overall organization
1.3.2 Levels and Layers
1.3.3 Primitives
1.3.4 Levels and primitives
1.3.5 Implementation
1.4 FDG in its broader context
1.4.1 Introduction
1.4.2 Functionalism
1.4.3 Typology
1.4.4 Language modelling
1.4.5 On using FDG
1.5 Notational conventions
1.6 Structure of the book
2 The Interpersonal Level
2.1 Introduction
2.2 The organization of the Interpersonal Level
2.3 The Move
2.3.1 Introduction
2.3.2 Heads
2.3.3 Modifiers
2.3.4 Operators
2.3.5 Frames
2.4 The Discourse Act
2.4.1 Introduction
2.4.2 Heads
2.4.3 Modifiers
2.4.4 Operators
2.4.5 Frames
2.5 Illocution
2.5.1 Introduction
2.5.2 Heads
2.5.3 Modifiers
2.5.4 Operators
2.5.5 Frames
2.6 The Participants
2.6.1 Introduction
2.6.2 Heads
2.6.3 Modifiers
2.6.4 Operators
2.6.5 Frames
2.7 The Communicated Content
2.7.1 Introduction
2.7.2 Heads
2.7.3 Modifiers
2.7.4 Operators
2.7.5 Frames
2.8 Subacts
2.8.1 Introduction
2.8.2 Ascription
2.8.3 Reference
2.9 Building up the Interpersonal Level
3 The Representational Level
3.1 Introduction: semantics in FDG
3.2 The organization of the Representational Level
3.2.1 Semantic categories
3.2.2 Subclasses of semantic categories
3.2.3 The structure of representational layers
3.3 Propositional contents
3.3.1 Introduction
3.3.2 Heads
3.3.3 Modifiers
3.3.4 Operators
3.3.5 Frames
3.4 Episodes
3.4.1 Introduction
3.4.2 Heads
3.4.3 Modifiers
3.4.4 Operators
3.4.5 Frames
3.5 States-of-Affairs
3.5.1 Introduction
3.5.2 Heads
3.5.3 Modifiers
3.5.4 Operators
3.5.5 Frames
3.6 Configurational Properties
3.6.1 Introduction
3.6.2 Heads
3.6.3 Modifiers
3.6.4 Operators
3.6.5 Frames
3.7 Lexical Properties
3.7.1 Introduction
3.7.2 Heads
3.7.3 Modifiers
3.7.4 Operators
3.7.5 Frames
3.8 Individuals
3.8.1 Introduction
3.8.2 Heads
3.8.3 Modifiers
3.8.4 Operators
3.8.5 Frames
3.9 Location
3.9.1 Introduction
3.9.2 Heads
3.9.3 Modifiers
3.9.4 Operators
3.9.5 Frames
3.10 Time
3.10.1 Introduction
3.10.2 Heads
3.10.3 Modifiers
3.10.4 Operators
3.10.5 Frames
3.11 Manner
3.11.1 Introduction
3.11.2 Heads
3.11.3 Modifiers
3.11.4 Operators
3.11.5 Frames
3.12 Quantity
3.12.1 Introduction
3.12.2 Heads
3.12.3 Modifiers
3.12.4 Operators
3.12.5 Frames
3.13 Reason
3.13.1 Introduction
3.13.2 Heads
3.13.3 Modifiers
3.13.4 Operators
3.13.5 Frames
3.14 Reflexive language
3.15 Building up the Representational Level
4 The Morphosyntactic Level
4.1 Introduction
4.1.1 Purpose and scope of the chapter
4.1.2 Relation to Interpersonal Level and the Representational Level
4.1.3 Relation to Phonological Level
4.2 The organization of the Morphosyntactic Level
4.2.1 Introduction
4.2.2 Hierarchical structure
4.2.3 Grammatical morphemes and secondary operators
4.3 Linguistic Expressions
4.4 Clauses
4.4.1 Introduction
4.4.2 Ordering of hierarchically related units
4.4.3 Alignment
4.4.4 Ordering of non-hierarchically related units
4.4.5 Templates
4.4.6 Dummies and support
4.4.7 Agreement
4.4.8 Subordination
4.4.9 Coreference
4.5 Phrases
4.5.1 Introduction
4.5.2 Ordering of hierarchically related units
4.5.3 Alignment
4.5.4 Ordering of non-hierarchically related units
4.5.5 Templates
4.5.6 Dummies and support
4.5.7 Agreement
4.5.8 Subordination
4.6 Words
4.6.1 Introduction
4.6.2 Ordering of hierarchically related units
4.6.3 Alignment
4.6.4 Ordering of non-hierarchically related units
4.6.5 Templates
4.6.6 Dummies and support
4.6.7 Agreement
4.6.8 Subordination
4.7 Building up the Morphosyntactic Level
5 The Phonological Level
5.1 Introduction
5.2 The organization of the Phonological Level
5.3 Utterances
5.4 Intonational Phrases
5.5 Phonological Phrases
5.6 Phonological Words
5.7 Phonemes, Syllables, and Feet
5.8 Building up the Phonological Level
References
Language Index
Kees Hengeveld has been active in Functional Grammar for over twenty years. He is the author of Non-verbal Predication: theory, typology, diachrony (Berlin, 1992) and editor of Simon Dik’s two-volume The Theory of Functional Grammar (Berlin, 1997). He is Professor of Theoretical Linguistics at the University of Amsterdam.
J. Lachlan Mackenzie has worked with Functional Grammar since his appointment in 1977 to the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where he is now Honorary Professor of Functional Linguistics. He is co-editor of Crucial Readings in Functional Grammar and of A New Architecture for Functional Grammar.
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