The Theory of Functional Grammar - Part 1: The Structure of the Clause

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Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- List of tables and figures -- Abbreviations used in FG-representations -- 1. Methodological preliminaries -- 2. Some basic concepts of linguistic theory -- 3. Preview of Functional Grammar -- 4. The nuclear predication -- 5. States of Affairs and semantic functions -- 6. On the function and structure of terms -- 7. Term operators -- 8. Non-verbal predicates -- 9. Nuclear, core, and extended predication -- 10. Perspectivizing the State of Affairs: Subject and Object assignment -- 11. Reconsidering the Semantic Function Hierarchy; Raising; Ergativity -- 12. Predication, proposition, clause -- 13. Pragmatic functions -- 14. Expression rules -- 15. The operation of expression rules -- 16. Principles of constituent ordering -- 17. Constituent ordering: problems and complications -- 18. Prosodic features -- Backmatter

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• Authors: Simon C. Dik
• Assisted by: Machtelt Bolkestein (Editor), Simo C Dik (Editor), Simon C Dik (Editor), Simon C. Dik (Editor), Casper Groot (Editor), Kees Hengeveld (Editor), J. Lachlan Mackenzie (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2015
• EAN: 9783110154047
• ISBN: 978-3-11-015404-7
• No. of pages: 509
• Dimensions: 168 mm x 33 mm x 237 mm
• Weight: 890 g
• Illustrations: 7 b/w ill., 16 b/w tbl.
• Sets: The Theory of Functional Grammar; The Theory of Functional Grammar; Simon C. Dik: The Theory of Functional Grammar
• Series: Functional Grammar Series (FGS); Functional Grammar Series [FGS]; ISSN
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics