Table of contents
Introductionvii
Part I: Reconnecting language
Language as a faculty, languages as ‘contingent’ manifestations and humans as function builders29
Linguistics — systemic and functional: Renewing the ‘warrant’49
Part II: Dependency
Structure, meaning and use73
Control in constrained dependency grammar99
Part III: Cross-linguistic morphosyntax
Grammatical structures in noun incorporation141
The formal realization of case and agreement marking: A functional perspective181
Part IV: Case and semantic roles in discourse
Functions of case-marking vs. non-marking in Finnish discourse213
The interaction of Russian word order, agreement and case marking227
Models of transitivity in French: A systemic-functional interpretation249
Mental process clauses in Japanese297
Index329
List of contributors337
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