This book is the first comprehensive presentation of Functional Discourse Grammar, a new and important theory of language structure. 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 wide range of linguistic families. After a full introduction the book is divided into chapters concerned with the four levels of grammatical representation - pragmatic, semantic, morphosyntactic, and phonological - each of which...
This book is the first comprehensive presentation of Functional Discourse Grammar, a new and important theory of language structure. The authors set o...
This book is the first comprehensive presentation of Functional Discourse Grammar, a new and important theory of language structure. 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 wide range of linguistic families. After a full introduction the book is divided into chapters concerned with the four levels of grammatical representation - pragmatic, semantic, morphosyntactic, and phonological - each of which...
This book is the first comprehensive presentation of Functional Discourse Grammar, a new and important theory of language structure. The authors set o...
Linguistics is a comprehensive crosslinguistic introduction to the study of language, and is ideal for students with no background in linguistics.
A comprehensive introduction to the study of language, set apart by its inclusion of cross-linguistic data from over 80 different spoken and signed languages
Explores how language works by examining discourse, sentence-structure, meaning, words, and sounds
Introduces psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic issues, including language acquisition, neurolinguistics, language variation, language change,...
Linguistics is a comprehensive crosslinguistic introduction to the study of language, and is ideal for students with no background in linguisti...
Linguistics is a comprehensive crosslinguistic introduction to the study of language, and is ideal for students with no background in linguistics.
A comprehensive introduction to the study of language, set apart by its inclusion of cross-linguistic data from over 80 different spoken and signed languages
Explores how language works by examining discourse, sentence-structure, meaning, words, and sounds
Introduces psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic issues, including language acquisition, neurolinguistics, language variation, language change,...
Linguistics is a comprehensive crosslinguistic introduction to the study of language, and is ideal for students with no background in linguisti...
This books reflects the growing interest within Functional Grammar for the further development of the syntactic and morphological components of the model. The papers in this volume discuss two recent developments, the Dynamic Expression Model for Functional Grammar and the conversion of this model into a Functional Discourse Grammar model, synopses of which are included. Further articles provide detailed analyses of a range of semantic and pragmatic categories and their morphosyntactic expression in a wide variety of languages. The articles in this book include data on some 60 different...
This books reflects the growing interest within Functional Grammar for the further development of the syntactic and morphological components of the...
