Reconnecting Form and Meaning

In honour of Kristin Davidse

Editors

Caroline Gentens | University of Zurich,

Lobke Ghesquière | University of Mons,

William B. McGregor | Aarhus University,

An Van linden | University of Liège,

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This volume is intended as a celebration of Kristin Davidse’s work and its impact within the broad traditions of cognitive, functional and usage-based grammars. Reflecting this wide functionalist lens, the contributions develop ideas central to Neo-Firthian theories of grammar (in particular, Semiotic Grammar and SFL), the Prague School, Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG), and broader cognitive-functional (e.g. Construction Grammar) and usage-based approaches (e.g. Entrenchment-and-Conventionalization theory, corpus-based sociolinguistics). The range of topics addressed makes the volume particularly relevant to linguists investigating information structure, construction grammar, functional discourse grammar, spatial deixis, pronoun and case systems, and/or the semantics of verbal constructions.

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 230] 2023. vii, 305 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.230

Table of Contents

General acknowledgments | pp. vii–8

Introduction. Reconnecting form and meaning: Lexis and grammar from cognitive-functional and usage-based perspectives

Caroline Gentens, Lobke Ghesquière, William B. McGregor and An Van linden | pp. 1–13

Section 1. Information structure

Chapter 1. On the use of there-clefts with zero subject relativizer

Gunther Kaltenböck | pp. 17–43

Chapter 2. Impersonal passives in English and Norwegian

Hilde Hasselgård | pp. 45–69

Chapter 3. Atopicality as the unmarked logical structure in Scottish Gaelic

Tom Bartlett | pp. 71–95

Section 2. Usage-based approaches to grammar and the lexicon

Chapter 4. On the rise of a marker of disaffiliation from Others’ discourse

Elizabeth Closs Traugott | pp. 99–122

Chapter 5. Towards a radically usage-based account of constructional attrition: Integrating subtractive language developments in the Entrenchment-and-Conventionalization model

Dirk Noël | pp. 123–144

Chapter 6. The compound pronouns someone/somebody and everyone/everybody in present-day spoken English: An analysis based on the Spoken BNC2014 corpus

Christopher S. Butler and Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen | pp. 145–182

Section 3. Theoretical issues in functional linguistics

Chapter 7. Iconicity in spatial deixis: A cross-linguistic study of 180 demonstrative systems

Merlijn Breunesse and Holger Diessel | pp. 185–207

Chapter 8. A cognitive-functional approach to watch as a verb of perception

Lucy Chrispin and Lise Fontaine | pp. 209–236

Chapter 9. Zero-marking or nothing to mark? The case against absolutive ‘case’ in Gooniyandi

William B. McGregor | pp. 237–265

Chapter 10. Enation and agnation in multi-level models: The case for Functional Discourse Grammar

Evelien Keizer | pp. 267–298

Author index | pp. 299–300

Language index | pp. 301–302

Subject index | pp. 303–305

“To conclude, the editors are to be applauded for not only curating the individual chapters but also arranging them in three themes which pay homage to Davidse’s important contributions in the development of functional and cognitive linguistics. It is my firm hope that this work, solid and influential in its own right, will not only be read but also will inspire readers to engage with Davidse’s ongoing and important oeuvre.”

Gerard O’Grady, Cardiff University, in English Language and Linguistics (2024).

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