New Perspectives on Argument Structure in Functional Grammar

✍ Scribed by Ricardo Mairal Usón (editor); María Jesús Pérez Quintero (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 372
• Series: Functional Grammar Series [FGS]; 25
• Edition: Reprint 2015
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The present monograph deals with lexical representation and linking within the framework of Functional Grammar. The notion of predicate frame as originally proposed in 1978 and subsequent refinements of the theory are challenged in that a new format of representing argument taking properties is formulated. This new format opens new lines of research towards the design of a new linking algorithm in Functional Grammar.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction
The predicate in Functional Grammar
Functional Grammar and lexical templates
Do we need predicate frames?
Adpositions, the lexicon and expression rules
Ontological Semantics and lexical templates: Mowing the grass from the other side of the fence
On the syntax-semantics interface in word formation: The case of English -er nominalizations
Catching a glimpse of linguistic reality: Modelling the complexity of catch in the Functional Lexematic Model
Lexical templates and syntactic variation: The syntax-semantics interface of the Old English speech verb secgan
Lexical-semantic explorations in English verbs of physical contact: Iconicity and linguistic representations
Another look at second and third arguments
Index of subjects