Main description:
This collection presents a number of studies in the lexico-grammar of English which focus on the one hand on close reading of language in context and on the other hand on current functional theoretical concerns. The various contributions represent distinct functionalist models of language, including Functional Grammar and Functional Discourse Grammar, Systemic-Functional Grammar, Role and Reference Grammar, Cognitive Grammar and Construction Grammar. Taken together, however, they typify current work being conducted from the grammatical perspective within the functionalist enterprise, focussing on the relation between structure and usage. A fundamental goal of the enterprise is to identify linguistic structures which are constrained by specific features of use, or which actually encode specific features of use, as many of the contributions here show.
Table of contents:
- Introduction
- Part One: Corpus-based studies
- No doubt and related expressions
- On certainly and zeker
- Prenominal possessives in English
- Ditransitive clauses in English with special reference to Lancashire dialect
- 6;It was you that told me that, wasn't it?' It-clefts revisited in discourse
- Another take on the notion Subject
- The modal auxiliaries of English, -operators in Functional Grammar and 'grounding'
- The king is on huntunge
- Part Two: The architecture of functional models
- Mental context and the expression of terms within the English clause
- Adverbial conjunctions in Functional Discourse Grammar
- Tree tigers and tree elephants
- English constructions from a Dutch perspective
- Notes towards an incremental implementation of the Role and Reference Grammar semantics-to-syntax linking algorithm for English
- Grammar, flow and procedural knowledge
- The non-linearity of speech production
- A speaker/hearer-based grammar
This collection presents a number of studies in the lexico-grammar of English which focus on the one hand on close reading of language in context and on the other hand on current functional theoretical concerns. The various contributions represent distinct functionalist models of language, including Functional Grammar and Functional Discourse Grammar, Systemic-Functional Grammar, Role and Reference Grammar, Cognitive Grammar and Construction Grammar. Taken together, however, they typify current work being conducted from the grammatical perspective within the functionalist enterprise, focussing on the relation between structure and usage. A fundamental goal of the enterprise is to identify linguistic structures which are constrained by specific features of use, or which actually encode specific features of use, as many of the contributions here show.
Table of contents:
- Introduction
- Part One: Corpus-based studies
- No doubt and related expressions
- On certainly and zeker
- Prenominal possessives in English
- Ditransitive clauses in English with special reference to Lancashire dialect
- 6;It was you that told me that, wasn't it?' It-clefts revisited in discourse
- Another take on the notion Subject
- The modal auxiliaries of English, -operators in Functional Grammar and 'grounding'
- The king is on huntunge
- Part Two: The architecture of functional models
- Mental context and the expression of terms within the English clause
- Adverbial conjunctions in Functional Discourse Grammar
- Tree tigers and tree elephants
- English constructions from a Dutch perspective
- Notes towards an incremental implementation of the Role and Reference Grammar semantics-to-syntax linking algorithm for English
- Grammar, flow and procedural knowledge
- The non-linearity of speech production
- A speaker/hearer-based grammar