Functional Discourse Grammar: A Typologically-Based Theory of Language Structure

✍ Scribed by Kees Hengeveld, J. Lachlan Mackenzie

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 528
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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......Page 6
Preface......Page 12
List of tables and figures......Page 15
Abbreviations......Page 17
1.2.2 Top-down organization......Page 26
1.2.3 Discourse grammar......Page 28
1.2.4 Levels of representation......Page 29
1.2.5 Conceptual Component, Contextual Component, and Output Component......Page 31
1.3.1 Overall organization......Page 37
1.3.2 Levels and Layers......Page 39
1.3.3 Primitives......Page 44
1.3.4 Levels and primitives......Page 47
1.3.5 Implementation......Page 48
1.4.1 Introduction......Page 50
1.4.2 Functionalism......Page 51
1.4.3 Typology......Page 56
1.4.4 Language modelling......Page 62
1.4.5 On using FDG......Page 66
1.5 Notational conventions......Page 68
1.6 Structure of the book......Page 70
2.1 Introduction......Page 71
2.2 The organization of the Interpersonal Level......Page 73
2.3.1 Introduction......Page 75
2.3.2 Heads......Page 77
2.3.3 Modifiers......Page 83
2.3.4 Operators......Page 84
2.4.1 Introduction......Page 85
2.4.2 Heads......Page 88
2.4.3 Modifiers......Page 89
2.4.4 Operators......Page 90
2.5.1 Introduction......Page 93
2.5.2 Heads......Page 94
2.5.3 Modifiers......Page 106
2.5.5 Frames......Page 108
2.6.2 Heads......Page 109
2.6.4 Operators......Page 110
2.7.1 Introduction......Page 112
2.7.2 Heads......Page 113
2.7.3 Modifiers......Page 127
2.7.4 Operators......Page 129
2.7.5 Frames......Page 131
2.8.1 Introduction......Page 132
2.8.2 Ascription......Page 133
2.8.3 Reference......Page 138
2.9 Building up the Interpersonal Level......Page 149
3.1 Introduction: semantics in FDG......Page 153
3.2.1 Semantic categories......Page 155
3.2.2 Subclasses of semantic categories......Page 160
3.2.3 The structure of representational layers......Page 163
3.3.1 Introduction......Page 169
3.3.2 Heads......Page 170
3.3.3 Modifiers......Page 176
3.3.4 Operators......Page 178
3.3.5 Frames......Page 181
3.4.1 Introduction......Page 182
3.4.2 Heads......Page 185
3.4.3 Modifiers......Page 187
3.4.4 Operators......Page 188
3.4.5 Frames......Page 190
3.5.2 Heads......Page 191
3.5.3 Modifiers......Page 196
3.5.4 Operators......Page 197
3.5.5 Frames......Page 205
3.6.1 Introduction......Page 206
3.6.2 Heads......Page 207
3.6.3 Modifiers......Page 233
3.6.4 Operators......Page 235
3.6.5 Frames......Page 239
3.7.2 Heads......Page 240
3.7.3 Modifiers......Page 255
3.7.4 Operators......Page 258
3.8.1 Introduction......Page 261
3.8.2 Heads......Page 262
3.8.3 Modifiers......Page 266
3.8.4 Operators......Page 270
3.8.5 Frames......Page 272
3.9.1 Introduction......Page 273
3.9.2 Heads......Page 274
3.9.3 Modifiers......Page 279
3.9.4 Operators......Page 281
3.10.1 Introduction......Page 282
3.10.2 Heads......Page 283
3.10.3 Modifiers......Page 285
3.10.5 Frames......Page 287
3.11.1 Introduction......Page 288
3.11.2 Heads......Page 290
3.11.4 Operators......Page 292
3.12.1 Introduction......Page 293
3.12.2 Heads......Page 294
3.12.4 Operators......Page 296
3.13.2 Heads......Page 297
3.13.5 Frames......Page 299
3.14 Reflexive language......Page 300
3.15 Building up the Representational Level......Page 302
4.1.1 Purpose and scope of the chapter......Page 307
4.1.2 Relation to Interpersonal Level and the Representational Level......Page 308
4.1.3 Relation to Phonological Level......Page 312
4.2.2 Hierarchical structure......Page 316
4.2.3 Grammatical morphemes and secondary operators......Page 326
4.3 Linguistic Expressions......Page 333
4.4.1 Introduction......Page 334
4.4.2 Ordering of hierarchically related units......Page 336
4.4.3 Alignment......Page 341
4.4.4 Ordering of non-hierarchically related units......Page 358
4.4.5 Templates......Page 366
4.4.6 Dummies and support......Page 372
4.4.7 Agreement......Page 375
4.4.8 Subordination......Page 377
4.4.9 Coreference......Page 397
4.5.1 Introduction......Page 401
4.5.2 Ordering of hierarchically related units......Page 402
4.5.3 Alignment......Page 408
4.5.4 Ordering of non-hierarchically related units......Page 412
4.5.5 Templates......Page 414
4.5.6 Dummies and support......Page 416
4.5.7 Agreement......Page 419
4.5.8 Subordination......Page 421
4.6.1 Introduction......Page 425
4.6.2 Ordering of hierarchically related units......Page 430
4.6.3 Alignment......Page 431
4.6.4 Ordering of non-hierarchically related units......Page 434
4.6.5 Templates......Page 436
4.6.6 Dummies and support......Page 437
4.6.8 Subordination......Page 439
4.7 Building up the Morphosyntactic Level......Page 441
5.1 Introduction......Page 446
5.2 The organization of the Phonological Level......Page 452
5.3 Utterances......Page 455
5.4 Intonational Phrases......Page 457
5.5 Phonological Phrases......Page 461
5.6 Phonological Words......Page 468
5.7 Phonemes, Syllables, and Feet......Page 474
5.8 Building up the Phonological Level......Page 480
References......Page 488
K......Page 514
T......Page 515
Y......Page 516
D......Page 517
K......Page 518
R......Page 519
Z......Page 520
C......Page 521
D......Page 522
G......Page 523
L......Page 524
N......Page 525
Q......Page 526
S......Page 527
Z......Page 528

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Грамматика (общая теория);