This book provides ten case studies in Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG), a typologically-oriented theory of the organization of natural languages that has risen to prominence in recent years. The authors, all committed practitioners of FDG, include Kees Hengeveld, the intellectual father of the theory, who shows how it offers a radically new approach to constituent ordering. Other themes covered are evidentiality, modality, adpositions, verb morphology, possession, raising, sequence of tenses, semi-fixed constructions and prelinguistic conceptualization. The volume contains an introduction...

The present volume of Bibliographie Linguistique I Linguistic Bibliography is the fifty-second to have been published to date. An important innovation is the revised and much expanded classification of the languages of South America. BLonline, the internet version of BL, was officially presented on 21 March 2003 at a symposium in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the National Library of the Netherlands, and subsequently at the XVIIth International Congress of Linguists, which was held in Prague, from 24 through 29 July 2003. BLonline now offers over 150,000 titels and is available at . The...

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science.

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as...