nam a22 c 4500 slcs.27/979008997 nljbp 250625091548.7 cr ||||||||||| 250410s1995 ne |||||||||||||||||eng|d 0094044089 9789027285737 (e-Book) nljbp eng nljbp nljbp P201 415 20 CF bicssc LAN009000 bisacsh Discourse, Grammar and Typology Papers in honor of John W.M. Verhaar Edited by Werner Abraham, T. Givón and Sandra A. Thompson Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1995 ©1995 1 online resource (xx, 352 pp.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Studies in Language Companion Series 0165-7763 27 Includes bibliographical references and index. Diathesis / Werner Abraham -- How many Transitivisers are in Kope? / John M. Clifton -- Complement Clauses versus Relative Clauses / Bernard Comrie and Kaoru Horie -- The two Prototypes of Ditransitive Verbs / Bambang Purwo Kaswanti -- The Assertion of High Subjective Certainty / Robert J. Conrad and Joshua Lukas -- On the German werden Future / Bernd Heine -- The Category ‘Event’ in Natural Discourse and Logic / Paul J. Hopper -- The Category ‘S’ in English Conversation / Barbara A. Fox -- A Semantic Basis for Grammatical Typology / Anna Wierzbicka -- Grammatical Signs of the Divided Self / John Haiman † -- Language and Culture of Inner Asia's Borderland / Charles N. Li -- Multifunctionality and the Realization Problem in Modelling Discourse Production / Susanna Cumming -- Towards an Understanding of Linguistic Evolution and the Notion ‘X has a Function Y’ / Mark Durie -- “Lice he no good” / Suzanne Romaine -- Form and Meaning in Morphology / Wiecher Zwanenburg This volume combines papers selected for their affinity with work on discourse analysis and language typology. The methodological platform is the authors' conviction that all linguistic work needs to be empirical in the sense that (1) generalizations are to be made on the basis of spoken texts in larger contexts, (2) generalizations are correct only as long as pertinent linguistic material does not contradict them, and (3) that linguistic categories and rules are of a temporal nature. In this sense, the contributions represent 'functional typological' comparison, often of languages not frequently investigated. The papers are arranged in 5 groups: Transitivity and voice; Clausal modality; Typology and discourse categories; Language and Culture; Functionality. Provided by publisher. Discourse studies Functional linguistics Pragmatics Typology Abraham, Werner editor Givón, T. editor Thompson, Sandra A. editor Hardbound version: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1995 9789027230300 DOI https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.27 JB e-Platform https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027285737