The key argument of this book, originally published in 1984, is
that when human beings communicate with each other by means of a
natural language they typically do not do so in simple sentences
but rather in connected discourse - complex expressions made up of
a number of clauses linked together in various ways. A necessary
precondition for intelligible discourse is the speaker's ability to
signal the temporal relations between the events that are being
discussed and to refer to the participants in those events in such
a way that it is clear who is being talked about. A great deal of
the grammatical machinery in a language is devoted to this task,
and Functional Syntax and Universal Grammar explores how different
grammatical systems accomplish it. This book is an important
attempt to integrate the study of linguistic form with the study of
language use and meaning. It will be of particular interest to
field linguists and those concerned with typology and language
universals, and also to anthropologists involved in the study of
language function.
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