1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457939103321

Autore

Francis Norbert

Titolo

Bilingual competence and bilingual proficiency in child development [[electronic resource] /] / Norbert Francis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, 2012

ISBN

0-262-29748-5

1-283-42072-4

9786613420725

0-262-29838-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (411 p.)

Disciplina

404/.2083

Soggetti

Bilingualism in children

Language acquisition

Competence and performance (Linguistics)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

In this volume, Norbert Francis examines the development of bilingual proficiency and the different kinds of competence that come together in making up its component parts.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910820797103321

Autore

Keizer Evelien

Titolo

A functional discourse grammar for English / / Evelien Keizer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, England : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-19-957186-4

0-19-103799-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (355 p.)

Collana

Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics

Disciplina

425

Soggetti

English language - Discourse analysis

English language - Grammar

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover ""; ""A Functional Discourse Grammar for English""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""List of tables""; ""List of abbreviations and symbols""; ""Abbreviations used in representations""; ""Interpersonal level""; ""Representational level""; ""Morphosyntactic level""; ""Phonological level""; ""Parts-of-speech""; ""Abbreviations used in glosses""; ""1: Why Functional Discourse Grammar?""; ""1.1. Introduction""; ""1.2. Why linguistic theory?""; ""1.3. Why functional?""; ""1.3.1. Some fundamental theoretical issues""; ""1.3.1.1. The purpose of language""

""1.3.1.2. The object of study""""(i) Central area of interest""; ""(ii) Competence vs. performance""; ""1.3.1.3. Innateness""; ""1.3.1.4. The role of context""; ""1.3.1.5. The nature of linguistic categorization""; ""1.3.2. Formal and functional approaches""; ""1.4. Why discourse?""; ""1.5. What is (in) a grammar?""; ""1.6. Summary""; ""Exercises""; ""Suggestions for further reading""; ""2: The general architecture of FDG""; ""2.1. Introduction""; ""2.2. FDG in its wider context""; ""2.2.1. The Conceptual Component""; ""2.2.2. The Contextual Component""; ""2.2.3. The Output Component""

""2.3. The Grammatical Component""""2.3.1. Operations""; ""2.3.2. Primitives""; ""2.3.3. Levels of representation""; ""2.3.3.1. General structure of the four levels""; ""2.3.3.2. The Interpersonal Level"";



""2.3.3.3. The Representational Level""; ""2.3.3.4. The Morphosyntactic Level""; ""2.3.3.5. The Phonological Level""; ""2.4. Summary""; ""Exercises""; ""Suggestions for further reading""; ""3: The Interpersonal Level""; ""3.1. Introduction""; ""3.2. The organization of the Interpersonal Level""; ""3.3. The Move""; ""3.3.1. General characterization""; ""3.3.2. The head""

""3.3.3. Modifiers""""3.3.4. Operators""; ""3.4. The Discourse Act""; ""3.4.1. General characterization""; ""3.4.2. The head""; ""3.4.3. Modifiers""; ""3.4.4. Operators""; ""3.5. The Illocution""; ""3.5.1. General characterization""; ""3.5.2. The head""; ""3.5.2.1. Abstract heads""; ""3.5.2.2. Lexical heads""; ""3.5.3. Modifiers""; ""3.5.4. Operators""; ""3.6. The Speech Participants""; ""3.6.1. General characterization""; ""3.6.2. The head""; ""3.6.3. Modifiers""; ""3.6.4. Operators""; ""3.7. Communicated Content""; ""3.7.1. General characterization""; ""3.7.2. The head""

""3.7.3. Modifiers""""3.7.4. Operators""; ""3.8. Ascriptive Subacts""; ""3.8.1. General characterization""; ""3.8.2. The head""; ""3.8.3. Modifiers""; ""3.8.4. Operators""; ""3.9. Referential Subacts""; ""3.9.1. General characterization""; ""3.9.2. The head""; ""3.9.2.1. Abstract heads""; ""3.9.2.2. Lexical heads""; ""3.9.2.3. Empty heads""; ""3.9.3. Modifiers""; ""3.9.4. Operators""; ""3.10. Summary""; ""Exercises""; ""Suggestions for further reading""; ""4: The Representational Level""; ""4.1. Introduction""; ""4.2. The organization of the Representational Level""

""4.3. The Propositional Content""

Sommario/riassunto

This is the first textbook on Functional Discourse Grammar, a recently developed theory of language structure which analyses utterances at four independent levels of grammatical representation: pragmatic, semantic, morphosyntactic and phonological. The book offers a very systematic and highly accessible introduction to the theory: following the top-down organization of the model, it takes the reader step-by-step though the various levels of analysis (from pragmaticsdown to phonology), while at the same time providing a detailed account of the interaction between these different levels. The man