Matthew P. Anstey Matthew P. Anstey J. Lachlan MacKenzie
Crucial Readings in Functional Grammar isan invaluable resource to anyone working in Functional Grammar, student and scholar alike. It contains important articles that have led to new avenues of research in the theory beyond Dik's two-volume Functional Grammar (1997), each concluded with a short paragraph with suggestions for further research. The book also contains an introduction to current Functional Grammar theory by the editors. Crucial Readings is uniquein bringing together in one volume the various ideas that complement Dik's canonical presentation of the theory.The editorial...
Crucial Readings in Functional Grammar isan invaluable resource to anyone working in Functional Grammar, student and scholar alike. It contains import...
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...