UID:
almafu_9959239259502883
Format:
1 online resource (532 p.)
Edition:
Second revised edition / edited by Kees Hengeveld.
ISBN:
1-283-39864-8
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9786613398642
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3-11-021836-4
Series Statement:
Functional Grammar Series [FGS] ; 20
Content:
Introduction When one takes a functional approach to the study of natural languages, the ultimate questions one is interested in can be formulated as: How does the natural language user (NLU) work? How do speakers and addressees succeed ...
Note:
First edition: 1989.
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Frontmatter --
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Table of contents --
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List of tables and figures --
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Abbreviations used in FG-representations --
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1. Methodological preliminaries --
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2. Some basic concepts of linguistic theory --
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3. Preview of Functional Grammar --
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4. The nuclear predication --
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5. States of Affairs and semantic functions --
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6. On the function and structure of terms --
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7. Term operators --
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8. Non-verbal predicates --
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9. Nuclear, core, and extended predication --
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10. Perspectivizing the State of Affairs: Subject and Object assignment --
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11. Reconsidering the Semantic Function Hierarchy; Raising; Ergativity --
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12. Predication, proposition, clause --
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13. Pragmatic functions --
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14. Expression rules --
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15. The operation of expression rules --
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16. Principles of constituent ordering --
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17. Constituent ordering: problems and complications --
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18. Prosodic features --
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Backmatter
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Issued also in print.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3-11-015404-8
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
DOI:
10.1515/9783110218367
