Reconnecting Form and Meaning
In honour of Kristin Davidse
Editors
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
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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General acknowledgments | pp. vii–8
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Introduction. Reconnecting form and meaning: Lexis and grammar from cognitive-functional and usage-based perspectivesCaroline Gentens, Lobke Ghesquière, William B. McGregor and An Van linden | pp. 1–13
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Section 1. Information structure
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Chapter 1. On the use of there-clefts with zero subject relativizerGunther Kaltenböck | pp. 17–43
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Chapter 2. Impersonal passives in English and NorwegianHilde Hasselgård | pp. 45–69
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Chapter 3. Atopicality as the unmarked logical structure in Scottish GaelicTom Bartlett | pp. 71–95
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Section 2. Usage-based approaches to grammar and the lexicon
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Chapter 4. On the rise of a marker of disaffiliation from Others’ discourseElizabeth Closs Traugott | pp. 99–122
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Chapter 5. Towards a radically usage-based account of constructional attrition: Integrating subtractive language developments in the Entrenchment-and-Conventionalization modelDirk Noël | pp. 123–144
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Chapter 6. The compound pronouns someone/somebody and everyone/everybody in present-day spoken English: An analysis based on the Spoken BNC2014 corpusChristopher S. Butler and Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen | pp. 145–182
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Section 3. Theoretical issues in functional linguistics
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Chapter 7. Iconicity in spatial deixis: A cross-linguistic study of 180 demonstrative systemsMerlijn Breunesse and Holger Diessel | pp. 185–207
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Chapter 8. A cognitive-functional approach to watch as a verb of perceptionLucy Chrispin and Lise Fontaine | pp. 209–236
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Chapter 9. Zero-marking or nothing to mark? The case against absolutive ‘case’ in GooniyandiWilliam B. McGregor | pp. 237–265
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Chapter 10. Enation and agnation in multi-level models: The case for Functional Discourse GrammarEvelien Keizer | pp. 267–298
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Author index | pp. 299–300
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Language index | pp. 301–302
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Subject index | pp. 303–305
Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFK: Grammar, syntax
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009060: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax