Authors:Kees Hengeveld, J. Lachlan Mackenzie,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: theory, language, structure, based, typologically, discourse, grammar, functional
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2008-10-15
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0199278113
ISBN-13: 9780199278114

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

Author: Elisabeth Verhoeven
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
Keywords: language, mayan, domain, studies, series, companion, functional, analysis, yucatec, constructions, maya, typologically, based, experiential
Number of Pages: 380
Published: 2007-03-22
List price: $180.00
ISBN-10: 9027230978
ISBN-13: 9789027230973