LINGUIST List 15.1979

Fri Jul 2 2004

Books: Linguistic Theories: Mackenzie et al (Eds)

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1. julia.ulrich, A New Architecture for Functional Grammar: Mackenzie, Gomez-Gonzalez (Eds)

Title: A New Architecture for Functional Grammar
Series Title: Functional Grammar Series 24

Publication Year: 2004
Publisher:	Mouton de Gruyter
		http://www.mouton-publishers.com

Book URL: http://www.degruyter.de/rs/bookSingle.cfm?id=IS-3110173565-1&l=E

Editor: J. Lachlan Mackenzie, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The
	Netherlands
Editor: Mar�a de los �ngeles G�mez-Gonz�lez, Universidad de Santiago
	de Compostela, Spain

Paperback: ISBN: 3110173565, Pages: xiv, 393, Price: Europe EURO 39.95

			
Abstract:

This volume, which represents a major advance on Simon Dik's final
statement of the theory (1997), lays the foundation for the future
evolution of FG towards a Functional Discourse Grammar. It rises to
the double challenge of specifying the interface between discourse and
grammar and of detailing the expression rules that link semantic
representation and morphosyntactic form.

The opening chapter, by Kees Hengeveld, sets out in programmatic form
a new architecture for FG which both preserves the best of the
traditional model and offers a place for numerous recent insights. The
remaining chapters are devoted to refining and developing the
programme laid down by Hengeveld, bringing in data from a range of
languages as well as theoretical insights inspired by adjoining
frameworks. Of special interest are an account by Matthew Anstey of
how current proposals arise from the history of FG and various
chapters in which the model is brought much closer to an account of
real-time language production, notably including the first ever
detailed account of the workings of expression rules, by Dik Bakker
and Anna Siewierska. The final chapter, also by Hengeveld, draws
together the findings of the various chapters, culminating in an
elaborated model that represents the most sophisticated statement of
Functional Grammar currently available.

The volume thus gives a coherent account of FG as a theory which
combines formal explicitness with a broad account of language
functions.


FROM THE CONTENTS:


The Architecture of a Functional Discourse Grammar
KEES HENGEVELD

Functional Grammar from its inception
MATTHEW P. ANSTEY

Behind the scenes: Cognition and Functional Discourse Grammar
CARLOS INCHAURRALDE

The question of discourse representation in Functional Discourse Grammar
JOHN CONNOLLY

Focus of attention in discourse
FRANCIS CORNISH

The complementarity of the process and pattern interpretations of
Functional Grammar
MICHAEL FORTESCUE

Functional Discourse Grammar and language production
J. LACHLAN MACKENZIE

Comment clauses, Functional Discourse Grammar and the
grammar-discourse interface
PETER HARDER

Functional Grammar and the dynamics of Discourse
MAR�A DE LOS �NGELES G�MEZ-GONZ�LEZ

The problem of subjective modality in the Functional Grammar model
JEAN-CHRISTOPHE VERSTRAETE

Remarks on layering in a cognitive-functional language production
model
JAN NUYTS

Discourse structure, the Generalized Parallelism Hypothesis and the
architecture of Functional Grammar
AHMED MOUTAOUAKIL

Towards a speaker model of Functional Grammar
DIK BAKKER AND ANNA SIEWIERSKA

Epilogue
KEES HENGEVELD



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