Functional grammar [[electronic resource] ] : a field approach / / by Alexander V. Bondarko ; translated by I.S. Chulaki

• Autore: Bondarko A. V (Aleksandr Vladimirovich)
• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1991
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (215 p.)
• Disciplina: 491.75
• Soggetto topico: Functionalism (Linguistics); Russian language - Grammar
• Altri autori: ChulakiI. S
• Note generali: Translation of: Funkt͡sionalʹnsi͡a grammatika.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-199) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR: A FIELD APPROACH; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Preface; Table of contents; Chapter I. Functional grammar: subject matter and goals; General view; Types of functional-grammatical description; The concept of function; The interpretational component of language content; Semantic categories of grammar; Intercategorial relations of functions; Interaction of system and environment; THE CATEGORY OF ASPECT AND ITS ENVIRONMENT IN THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE; General survey; The types of limit; Internal and external limit; Real and potential limit ; Explicit and implicit limitAbsolute and relative limit; Limitativity as a functional-semantic field; The varieties of limitative relations; Limitedness/unlimitedness of the action. The meanings of aspect.; Orientation towards limit (result)/Attainment of limit; Terminativity/Aterminativity; Limitative situations; Chapter II. Structural types of functional-semantic fields; The diversity of types of functional-semantic fields; Taxis in the Russian language; General survey; Restrictions specifying the sphere of taxis relations; Taxis and relative tense ; The structure of the taxis field in the Russian languageThe meanings of dependent and independent taxis; The opposition of dependent and independent taxis; Is taxis a grammatical category?; The correlation of primary and secondary predication in dependent taxis constructions; Peripheral components of dependent taxis; The hierarchy of the expressive means of independent taxis; Taxis situations and their relations with aspectuality; Chapter III. Categorial situations; Introductory remarks; Dominant categorial situations ; On the universal and concrete-language aspects of the concept of categorial situationAttitude to existing theories; Concluding remarks on categorial situations; Notes; References; Subject index; Name index
• Sommario/riassunto: Every grammar has to a greater or lesser extent a functional aspect. In this book, Bondarko provides a comprehensive discourse on the theoretical foundations of grammar, concentrating on functional-semantic fields, with emphasis on the diversity of their structural types. Criteria for distinguishing between linguistically structured meaning and non-linguistic cognitive content is developed in a discussion on "the Category of Aspect and its Environment" which includes an analysis of aspectual opposition according to the Prague School. Special attention is also paid to analysing polycentric fiel
• Titolo autorizzato: Functional grammar
• ISBN: 1-283-32815-1; 9786613328151; 90-272-7779-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781967703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Linguistic & literary studies in Eastern Europe ; ; v. 35.