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 u
Functional Discourse Grammar: A Typologically-Based Theory of Language Structure
โ Scribed by Kees Hengeveld, J. Lachlan Mackenzie
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 528
- Category
- Library
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