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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822810403321

Titolo

Layered structure and reference in a functional perspective : papers from the Functional Grammar Conference in Copenhagen, 1990 / / edited by Michael Fortescue, Peter Harder, Lars Kristoffersen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub., 1992

ISBN

1-283-22227-2

9786613222275

90-272-8290-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (458 p.)

Collana

Pragmatics & beyond, , 0922-842X ; ; new ser., 23

Altri autori (Persone)

FortescueMichael D

HarderPeter

KristoffersenLars

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Functionalism (Linguistics)

Grammar, Comparative and general

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 indexes.

Nota di contenuto

LAYERED STRUCTURE AND REFERENCE IN A FUNCTIONAL PERSPECTIVE; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; List of Contributors; Preface; Predicates as Referring Expressions; Parts of Speech; Predication, Aspect, and Negation; Subjective vs. Objective Modality: What Is the Difference?; Aspect and Superaspect in Koyukon: An Application of the Functional Grammar Model toa Polysynthetic Language; Derivation and Inflection in a Functional Grammarof West Greenlandic; Unit Accentuation as an Expression Device forPredicate Formation. The Case of Syntactic NounIncorporation in Danish

The Treatment of Turkish Nominal Compounds in FGPlaces and Things; Classifiers in a Functional Perspective; Semantic Content and Linguistic Structure inFunctional Grammar. On the Semantics of 'Nounhood'; Free Relatives; Number, Gender and Countability in Danish: An FG Approach; Conditionals in the Layered Structure of Functional Grammar; Limits to Layering: Locatability and Other Problems; Layers in FG and GB; Subject Index; Index of Names

Sommario/riassunto

This volume contains revised and expanded versions of those papers



from the 1990 Functional Grammar Conference in Copenhagen that contributed specifically to the current investigation of clause structure in terms of semantic layers. One of the key concepts in this discussion is 'reference'. Some papers discuss ways in which previous accounts of reference need to be expanded and differentiated to provide a consistent picture of referential properties. The power of layered analysis to bring out fundamental similarities between languages of very different types is the theme of another group of pa