Date: 15-Oct-2008 From: Elyse Turr <elyse.turroup.com> Subject: Functional Discourse in Grammar: Hengeveld, Mackenzie E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Functional Discourse in Grammar
Subtitle: A Typologically-Based Theory of Language Structure
Published: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Author: Kees Hengeveld
Author: J. Lachlan Mackenzie
Hardback: ISBN: 0199278105 9780199278107 Pages: 448 Price: U.S. $ 130.00
Paperback: ISBN: 0199278113 9780199278114 Pages: 448 Price: U.S. $ 55.00
Abstract:
This book is the first comprehensive presentation of Functional Discourse Grammar, a new and important theory of language structure. The authors set out its nature and origins and show how it relates to contemporary linguistic theory. They demonstrate and test its explanatory power and descriptive utility against linguistic facts from over 150 languages across a wide range of linguistic families.
After a full introduction the book is divided into chapters concerned with the four levels of grammatical representation - pragmatic, semantic, morphosyntactic, and phonological - each of which has its own hierarchical structure. "Functional Discourse Grammar" offers a thorough account of how the use and meaning of language influence linguistic form by conditioning two levels of formulation which feed into two levels of encoding, all with their own specific characteristics. The book offers an ideal introduction to the theory and its applications in typology and description for scholars in linguistics and related fields from graduate students upwards.
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