Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/

Journal Title: Functions of Language
Volume Number: 31
Issue Number: 2
Issue Date: 9012025

Main Text:

2024. iii, 124 pp.

Table of Contents

Articles

Semi-embedded clauses in Aisi: Assertion, disengagement, and insubordination
Don Daniels | pp. 115–141

‘What we found is’: Pseudo-clefts, cataphora, projection and cohesive chains
Florine Berthe, Anita Fetzer & Isabelle Gaudy-Campbell | pp. 142–165

Doing things with grammar: Presupposition accommodation across grammatical categories
Maria Khachaturyan, Erika Sandman & Thera Marie Crane | pp. 166–207

Book reviews

J. R. Martin, Beatriz Quiroz & Pin Wang. 2023. Systemic functional grammar: A text-based description of English, Spanish and Chinese
Reviewed by Hongmiao Gao | pp. 208–213

Gerard Steen. 2023. Slowing metaphor down: Elaborating Deliberate Metaphor Theory
Reviewed by Yang Gao & Deliang Wang | pp. 214–219

Laure Sarda & Ludovica Lena (eds.). 2023. Existential constructions across languages: Forms, meanings and functions
Reviewed by Yunhan Jia & Yicheng Wu | pp. 220–225

Mitsuaki Shimojo. 2024. Salience of information in Japanese: Discourse and the syntax-pragmatics interface
Reviewed by Shengwen Du, Chang Xu & Tiaoyuan Mao | pp. 226–231

Shu-Ling Wu, Lihong Huang & Carl Polley. 2024. Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition of Chinese: Theories and applications
Reviewed by Huilin Chen | pp. 232–238