The Theory of Functional Grammar. / Part 1, : The Structure of the Clause / / ed. by Simon C. Dik.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2009]
©1997
Year of Publication:2009
Edition:2nd rev. ed. 1997
Language:English
Series:Functional Grammar Series [FGS] , 20
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Physical Description:1 online resource (509 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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