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Title Crucial Readings in Functional Grammar / Matthew P. Anstey, J. Lachlan Mackenzie
Published Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2012]
©2005

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Description 1 online resource (396 pages)
Series Functional Grammar Series [FGS] ; 26
Functional Grammar Series FGS ; 26
Contents Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Layers and operators in Functional Grammar -- Further reading -- Toward a unified analysis of terms and predications -- Further reading -- Parts of speech -- Further reading -- Predicates as referring expressions -- Further reading -- Places and things -- Further reading -- The hierarchical structure of the clause and the typology of adverbial satellites -- Further reading -- Semantic content and linguistic structure in Functional Grammar. On the semantics of 'nounhood' -- Further reading -- On assigning pragmatic functions in English -- Further reading -- The utterance as unit of description: implications for Functional Grammar -- Further reading -- The multilayered structure of the utterance -- Further reading -- Functional grammar and lexematics in lexicography -- Further reading -- Appendix -- Further references -- Index of languages -- Index of names -- Index of subjects
Summary Crucial Readings in Functional Grammar is an 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, 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
Notes In English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Mar. 30, 2016)
Subject Functionalism (Linguistics)
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.
Functionalism (Linguistics)
Form Electronic book
Author Anstey, Matthew.
Mackenzie, J. Lachlan
ISBN 9783110901191
3110901196