Recent developments in functional discourse grammar

This volume presents a collection of papers using the theory of Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG) to analyse and explain a number of specific constructions or phenomena (external possessor contructions and binominal constructions, negation, modification, modality, polysynthesis and transparency) from different perspectives, language-specific, comparative and typological. In addition to applying the theory to the topics in question, these papers aim to contribute to the further development of the theory by modifying and extending it on the basis of new linguistic evidence from a range of languages, thus providing the latest state-of-the-art in FDG

Recent developments in functional discourse grammar

Keizer, E., Olbertz, H.

John Benjamins Publishing Company

2018

Abstract

This volume presents a collection of papers using the theory of Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG) to analyse and explain a number of specific constructions or phenomena (external possessor contructions and binominal constructions, negation, modification, modality, polysynthesis and transparency) from different perspectives, language-specific, comparative and typological. In addition to applying the theory to the topics in question, these papers aim to contribute to the further development of the theory by modifying and extending it on the basis of new linguistic evidence from a range of languages, thus providing the latest state-of-the-art in FDG. The volume as a whole, however, does more than this, as separately and together the papers collected here aim to demonstrate how FDG, with its unique architecture, can provide new insights into a number of issues and phenomena that are currently of interest to theoretical linguists in general.

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Contents:

• Functional Discourse Grammar: brief outline;
• Negation in Functional Discourse Grammar;
• Interpersonal adverbs in FDG: The case of frankly
• External possessor constructions and Cree relational inflection compared
• On objective and subjective epistemic modality again
• Evidence from Portuguese and Spanish modal auxillaries
• Premodification in evaluative of – binominal noun phrase
• An FDG vs a zone -based accound
• Subject expression in Brazillian Portuguese
• Measuring polysynthesis: A Functional Discourse Grammar approach

Citation

Keizer, E., Olbertz, H. Recent developments in functional discourse grammar. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2018.

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