Functional descriptions [[electronic resource] ] : theory in practice / / edited by Ruqaiya Hasan, Carmel Cloran, David Butt

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub., c1996
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (417 p.)
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetto topico: Grammar, Comparative and general; Functionalism (Linguistics); Metalanguage
• Altri autori: HasanRuqaiya CloranCarmel ButtDavid <1950->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Theories, maps, and descriptions / Davis Butt -- On grammar and grammatics / M.A.K. Halliday -- On the idea of theory-neutral descriptions / Christian Matthiessen and Christopher Nesbitt -- Ditransitivity and possession / Kristin Davidse -- So grammarians haven't the faintest idea : reconciling lexis-oriented and grammar-oriented approaches to language / Gordon H. Tucker -- The semantics of get-passives / Angela Downing -- Causation in Dutch and French : interpersonal aspects / Liesbeth Degand -- Process types in Finnish / Susanna Shore -- The "complement" in Chinese grammar / Edward McDonald -- Pitjantjatjara processes : an Australian experiential grammar / David Rose -- Metalinguistic diversity : the case from case / J.R. Martin.
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume focuses on the relation between theory and description by examining aspects of transitivity in different languages. Transitivity - or case grammar, to use the popular term - has always occupied a centre-stage position in linguistics, not least because of its supposedly privileged relation to states of affairs in the real world. Using a systemic functional perspective, the ten papers in this volume make a contribution to this scholarship by focusing on the transitivity patterns in language as the expression of the experiential metafunction. Through a study of different languages - E
• Titolo autorizzato: Functional descriptions
• ISBN: 1-283-31262-X; 9786613312624; 90-272-7630-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781465403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. : Series IV, . -Current issues in linguistic theory ; ; v. 121.