Structural-Functional Studies in English Grammar

In honour of Lachlan Mackenzie

Editors

Mike Hannay | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Gerard J. Steen | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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This collection presents a number of studies in the lexico-grammar of English which focus on the one hand on close reading of language in context and on the other hand on current functional theoretical concerns. The various contributions represent distinct functionalist models of language, including Functional Grammar and Functional Discourse Grammar, Systemic-Functional Grammar, Role and Reference Grammar, Cognitive Grammar and Construction Grammar. Taken together, however, they typify current work being conducted from the grammatical perspective within the functionalist enterprise, emphasizing on the relation between structure and usage. A fundamental goal of the enterprise is to identify linguistic structures which are constrained by specific features of use, or which actually encode specific features of use, as many of the contributions here show.

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 83] 2007. vi, 393 pp.

Publishing status:

https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.83

Table of Contents

Introduction | pp. 1–5

Part I. Corpus-based studies

Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen | pp. 9–34

On certainly and zeker

Pieter Byloo, Richard Kastein and Jan Nuyts | pp. 35–57

Prenominal possessives in English: Function and use

Evelien Keizer | pp. 59–82

Ditransitive clauses in English with special reference to Lancashire dialect

Anna Siewierska and Willem B. Hollmann | pp. 83–102

‘It was you that told me that, wasn’t it?’ It-clefts revisited in discourse

María de los Ángeles Gómez González | pp. 103–139

Another take on the notion Subject

Dik Bakker and Anna Siewierska | pp. 141–158

The modal auxiliaries of English, π-operators in Functional Grammar and “grounding”

Louis Goossens | pp. 159–173

The king is on huntunge: on the relation between progressive and absentive in Old and Early Modern English

Casper de Groot | pp. 175–190

Part II. The architecture of functional models

Mental context and the expression of terms within the English clause: An approach based on Functional Discourse Grammar

John H. Connolly | pp. 193–208

Adverbial conjunctions in Functional Discourse Grammar

Kees Hengeveld and Gerry Wanders | pp. 209–226

Tree tigers and tree elephants: a constructional account of English nominal compounds

Matthew Anstey | pp. 227–256

English constructions from a Dutch perspective: where are the differences?

Arie Verhagen | pp. 257–274

Notes towards an incremental implementation of the Role and Reference Grammar semantics-to-syntax linking algorithm for English

Christopher S. Butler | pp. 275–307

Grammar, flow and procedural knowledge: structure and function at the interface between grammar and discourse

Peter Harder | pp. 309–335

The non-linearity of speech production

Michael Fortescue | pp. 337–351

A speaker/hearer-based grammar: the case of possessives and compounds

Theo Janssen | pp. 353–387

Index | pp. 389–393

“The present volume makes an invaluable contribution to functional-cognitive linguistics in an number of significant ways.”

Francisco Gonzálev-García, University of Almería, in the Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, Vol. 6 (2008)

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