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In:The Interpersonal Level in Functional Discourse Grammar
Edited by Monielly Serafim, Matthias Mittendorfer and Kees Hengeveld
[Studies in Language Companion Series 241] 2027
► pp. 68–93

On the relationship between morphology and the Interpersonal Level in Functional Discourse Grammar

 | University of Vienna
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Abstract
This chapter investigates the interaction of pragmatics and morphology within Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG) by exploiting the model’s recognition of a pragmatic Interpersonal Level, next to a semantic Representational, a Morphosyntactic and a Phonological Level. It identifies pragmatically motivated morphological phenomena for the analysis of which FDG appears particularly useful, both in word-formation, i.e. ‘morphopragmatics’ in the traditional sense (e.g. identical constituent and phrasal compounding, evaluative derivation, blending, expletive insertion), and inflection (e.g. participles conveying speech acts in Germanic languages). Tackling such ‘pragmato-morphological’ linguistic interface structures, the chapter puts long-standing tenets (e.g. the distinction between the grammar proper and the lexicon/Fund) as well as newer developments of the theory (e.g. the restricted possibility of certain bottom-up operations) to the test.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.The interaction of pragmatics and morphology
    • 2.1Compounding
    • 2.2Derivation
    • 2.3Other processes
    • 2.4Participles conveying speech acts
  • 3.The relationship between morphology and the Interpersonal Level
    in Functional Discourse Grammar
    • 3.1Compounding, context and the lexicon
      • 3.1.1Nominal compounds
      • 3.1.2Reduplicative structures: Identical constituent compounds and echo-words
      • 3.1.3Phrasal compounds
      • 3.1.4Between compounding and affixation
    • 3.2Derivation and the lexicon
    • 3.3Other processes in the lexicon and in the grammar
    • 3.4Pragmatically used participles and lexical bottom-up processes
  • 4.Conclusion
  • Author queries
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • References
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