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Interfaces in Functional Discourse Grammar: Theory and applications

✍ Scribed by Daniel García Velasco, Lucia Contreras-García


Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Year
2021
Tongue
English
Leaves
458
Series
Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM], 354
Category
Library

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✦ Synopsis


In grammar design, a basic distinction is made between derivational and modular architectures. This raises the question of which organization of grammar can deal with linguistic phenomena more appropriately. The studies contained in the present volume explore the interface relations between different levels of linguistic representation in Functional Discourse Grammar as presented in Hengeveld and Mackenzie (2008) and Keizer (2015). This theory analyses linguistic expressions at four linguistic levels: interpersonal, representational, morphosyntactic and phonological. The articles address issues such as the possible correspondences and mismatches between those levels as well as the conditions which constrain the combinations of levels in well-formed expressions. Additionally, the theory is tested by examining various grammatical phenomena with a focus both on the English language and on typological adequacy: anaphora, raising, phonological reduction, noun incorporation, reflexives and reciprocals, serial verbs, the passive voice, time measurement constructions, coordination, nominal modification, and connectives. Overall, the volume provides both theoretical and descriptive insights which are of relevance to linguistics in general.

✦ Table of Contents


Contents
Abbreviations
Functional Discourse Grammar: Blueprint and interfaces
Interfaces, mismatches, and the architecture of Functional Discourse Grammar
Grammar in 5D: The interface design of a mismatching grammar
Phonology and phonetics in Functional Discourse Grammar: Interfaces, mismatches, and the direction of processing
Noun incorporation in Functional Discourse Grammar
A Functional Discourse Grammar typology of reflexives, with some notes on reciprocals
Serial verb constructions, interface mismatches and Functional Discourse Grammar
A Functional Discourse Grammar account of voice in Plains Algonquian Languages
The English β€˜Time-measurement construction’ as a case of gradience: A Functional Discourse Grammar approach
Inter-level mismatches in English coordinated partitives
A Functional Discourse Grammar account of postnominal modification in English
Meaning-to-form mismatches in Functional Discourse Grammar and Systemic Functional Grammar: A case study of the English discourse connective however
Subject Index
Name Index
Language Index


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