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This book brings together a series of contributions to the study of
grammaticalization of tense, aspect, and modality from a functional
perspective. All contributions share the aim to uncover the
functional motivations behind the processes of grammaticalization
under discussion, but they do so from different points of view.
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, this book turns to the
further development of the syntactic and morphological components
of the model. Two recent developments receive pride of place:
Bakker's Dynamic Expression Model and Hengeveldand Mackenzie's
Functional Discourse Grammar. The first model aims at accounting
for the complex interactions that one finds in many languages
between the sets of expression rules that have to account for form
on the one hand and those that establish order on the other. The
second model takes a further step by considering morphosyntactic
and phonological representations to be part of the underlying
structure of the grammar rather than as the output of that grammar,
contrary to the original assumptions in FG. The book accordingly
contains synopses of these two proposals as well as applications of
these to a variety of linguistic phenomena. Further articles
provide detailed analyses of a range of semantic and pragmatic
categories and their morphosyntactic expression in a wide variety
of languages. The articles in this book contain data on some 60
different languages, including focused articles on phenomena in
Arabic, Danish, English, Lengua de Senas Espanola, Mapudungun,
Plains Cree, and Tanggu. In all, the contributions to this volume
show that the issue of morphosyntactic expression in Functional
Grammar is very much alive and moving into promising new
directions, while at the same time contributing to a better
understanding of a large number of morphosyntactic phenomena in a
wide variety of languages.
This book brings together a series of contributions to the study of
grammaticalization of tense, aspect, and modality from a functional
perspective. All contributions share the aim to uncover the
functional motivations behind the processes of grammaticalization
under discussion, but they do so from different points of view.
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.
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.
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