Content, Expression and Structure

Studies in Danish functional grammar

Editors
ORCID logoElisabeth Engberg-Pedersen | University of Copenhagen
Michael Fortescue | University of Copenhagen
Peter Harder | University of Copenhagen
ORCID logoLars Heltoft | University of Copenhagen
Lisbeth Falster Jakobsen | University of Copenhagen
HardboundAvailable
ISBN 9789027230324 (Eur) | EUR 135.00
ISBN 9781556193811 (USA) | USD 203.00
 
e-Book
ISBN 9789027282019 | EUR 135.00 | USD 203.00
 
Google Play logo
This collection of papers offers an alternative to mainstream functional linguistics on two points. Especially in American linguistics, function and structure are often viewed almost as polar opposites; in addition, structure is often understood as being only a matter of linguistic form — or expression — as opposed to content. The book tries to illustrate why function and structure must be understood as mutually dependent in relation to language — and why the most interesting aspect of language structure is the way it structures the content side of language. In this, the book represents a reaffirmation of traditional concerns in structural linguistics, especially with respect to the structural integrity of individual languages — but with a reversal of traditional priority: structure is not autonomous, but must be understood on the basis of function. Without being hostile to typological and universal generalizations, the articles suggest that similarities between languages can only be responsibly discussed on the basis of an understanding that includes a respect for language differences.
The book contains discussions of a number of different languages including Nahuatl, Danish Sign Language, French, and Tlapanec, and focuses on the way meaning is organized in the grammar of Danish. A final section sums up theoretical perspectives.
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 29] 1996.  xvi, 510 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Table of Contents
Cited by

Cited by 25 other publications

Blom, Jonas Nygaard
2011. Syntactic Complexity in Danish Radio News. Nordicom Review 32:1  pp. 93 ff. DOI logo
Boye, Kasper & Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen
2016. Substance and structure in linguistics. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 48:1  pp. 5 ff. DOI logo
Brinton, Laurel J. & Elizabeth Closs Traugott
2005. Lexicalization and Language Change, DOI logo
Christensen, Tanya Karoli & Torben Juel Jensen
2022. Introduction: Analysing and Explaining Syntactic Variation. In Explanations in Sociosyntactic Variation,  pp. 1 ff. DOI logo
Diewald, Gabriele & Dániel Czicza
2022. Variation and Grammaticalization of Verbal Constructions. Constructions and Frames 14:1  pp. 1 ff. DOI logo
Harder, Peter
2016. Substance(s) and the rise and imposition of structure(s). Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 48:1  pp. 7 ff. DOI logo
Heltoft, Lars
Heltoft, Lars
2021. From indexical to symbolic case in Danish – a content analysis. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 53:2  pp. 160 ff. DOI logo
Jensen, Eva Skafte
2012. Markedness, participation and grammatical paradigms: Jakobson and Hjelmslev revisited. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 35:2  pp. 145 ff. DOI logo
Jensen, Eva Skafte
2018. “It is me” – the replacement of the nominative by the oblique form in Danish subject complements. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 50:1  pp. 52 ff. DOI logo
Jeppesen Kragh, Kirsten
2021. Proposition d’une classification des marqueurs discursifs comme membres d’un paradigme. Langue française N° 209:1  pp. 119 ff. DOI logo
Jeppesen Kragh, Kirsten & Lene Schøsler
2014. Reanalysis and gramma(ticaliza)tion of constructions. In Usage-Based Approaches to Language Change [Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 69],  pp. 169 ff. DOI logo
KRAGH, KIRSTEN JEPPESEN & LENE SCHØSLER
2015. Regrammation and paradigmatization: Diachronic analysis of a number of progressive periphrases in French. Journal of French Language Studies 25:2  pp. 265 ff. DOI logo
Kragh, Kirsten Jeppesen & Lene Schøsler
2019. From a single lexical unit to multiple grammatical paradigms. In Perspectives on Language Structure and Language Change [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 345],  pp. 271 ff. DOI logo
Juul Nielsen, Peter & Lars Heltoft
2023. Indexicality across the boundaries of syntax, semantics and pragmatics. In Ditransitives in Germanic Languages [Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 7],  pp. 150 ff. DOI logo
Juul-Nielsen, Peter
2019. Diachronic morphology, indexical function and a critique of the morphome analysis. In Perspectives on Language Structure and Language Change [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 345],  pp. 125 ff. DOI logo
Nielsen, Peter Juul
2017. The function of supine auxiliaries in Swedish and Danish: morphology and syntax in argument assignment. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 49:2  pp. 176 ff. DOI logo
Nielsen, Peter Juul
2022. The affactive få ‘get’ construction in Danish. Constructions and Frames 14:1  pp. 78 ff. DOI logo
Karrebæk, Martha Sif
2003. Iconicity and structure in codeswitching. International Journal of Bilingualism 7:4  pp. 407 ff. DOI logo
Kristensen, Line Burholt & Mikkel Wallentin
2015. Putting Broca’s region into context: fMRI evidence for a role in predictive language processing. In Cognitive Neuroscience of Natural Language Use,  pp. 160 ff. DOI logo
Mortensen, Sune Sønderberg
2011. A distributional approach to functional Danish subclause classification. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 43:2  pp. 127 ff. DOI logo
Mortensen, Sune Sønderberg
2014. Attributive clauses in Danish – and the relative irrelevance of relative clauses. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 37:3  pp. 393 ff. DOI logo
Nørgård-Sørensen, Jens & Lars Heltoft
2015. Grammaticalisation as paradigmatisation. In New Directions in Grammaticalization Research [Studies in Language Companion Series, 166],  pp. 261 ff. DOI logo
Schoning, Christian, Jørn Helder & Chloé Diskin-Holdaway
2023. Vi snakker sådan: An analysis of the Danish discourse-pragmatic markersådan. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 46:1  pp. 46 ff. DOI logo

This list is based on CrossRef data as of 16 march 2024. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers. Any errors therein should be reported to them.

Subjects

Main BIC Subject

CF: Linguistics

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
ONIX Metadata
ONIX 2.1
ONIX 3.0
U.S. Library of Congress Control Number:  96012359 | Marc record