Functional Discourse Grammar - A Typologically-Based Theory of Language Structure

Informationen zum Autor Kees Hengeveld has been active in Functional Grammar for over twenty years. He is the author of Non-verbal Predication: theory, typology, diachrony (Berlin, 1992) and editor of Simon Dik's two-volume The Theory of Functional Grammar (Berlin, 1997). He is Professor of Theoretical Linguistics at the University of Amsterdam. J. Lachlan Mackenzie has worked with Functional Grammar since his appointment in 1977 to the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where he is now Honorary Professor of Functional Linguistics. He is co-editor of Crucial Readings in Functional Grammar and of A New Architecture for Functional Grammar (Berlin, 2004 and 2005). Klappentext This is the first comprehensive presentation of Functional Discourse Grammar. 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 utility against linguistic facts from over 150 languages across a full range of linguistic families. Zusammenfassung This is the first comprehensive presentation of Functional Discourse Grammar. 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 utility against linguistic facts from over 150 languages across a full range of linguistic families.

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• Authors: Kees Hengeveld, Kees (University of Amsterdam) Hengeveld, Kees Mackenzie Hengeveld, Hengeveld Kees, J. Lachlan Mackenzie, J. Lachlan (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Mackenzie, Mackenzie J. Lachlan
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.08.2008
• EAN: 9780199278114
• ISBN: 978-0-19-927811-4
• No. of pages: 528
• Dimensions: 172 mm x 246 mm x 29 mm
• Series: Oxford Linguistics; Oxford Linguistics
• Subjects: Education and learning; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Grammatik, Syntax und Morphologie, Computerlinguistik und Korpuslinguistik, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Computational Linguistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc, Computational and corpus linguistics