Structural-Functional Studies in English Grammar
In honour of Lachlan Mackenzie
Editors
This collection presents a number of studies in the lexico-grammar of English which focus on the one hand on close reading of language in context and on the other hand on current functional theoretical concerns. The various contributions represent distinct functionalist models of language, including Functional Grammar and Functional Discourse Grammar, Systemic-Functional Grammar, Role and Reference Grammar, Cognitive Grammar and Construction Grammar. Taken together, however, they typify current work being conducted from the grammatical perspective within the functionalist enterprise, emphasizing on the relation between structure and usage. A fundamental goal of the enterprise is to identify linguistic structures which are constrained by specific features of use, or which actually encode specific features of use, as many of the contributions here show.
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 83] 2007. vi, 393 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
-
Introduction | pp. 1–5
-
Part I. Corpus-based studies
-
No doubt and related expressions: A functional accountAnne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen | pp. 9–34
-
On certainly and zekerPieter Byloo, Richard Kastein and Jan Nuyts | pp. 35–57
-
Prenominal possessives in English: Function and useEvelien Keizer | pp. 59–82
-
Ditransitive clauses in English with special reference to Lancashire dialectAnna Siewierska and Willem B. Hollmann | pp. 83–102
-
‘It was you that told me that, wasn’t it?’ It-clefts revisited in discourseMaría de los Ángeles Gómez González | pp. 103–139
-
Another take on the notion SubjectDik Bakker and Anna Siewierska | pp. 141–158
-
The modal auxiliaries of English, π-operators in Functional Grammar and “grounding”Louis Goossens | pp. 159–173
-
The king is on huntunge: on the relation between progressive and absentive in Old and Early Modern EnglishCasper de Groot | pp. 175–190
-
Part II. The architecture of functional models
-
Mental context and the expression of terms within the English clause: An approach based on Functional Discourse GrammarJohn H. Connolly | pp. 193–208
-
Adverbial conjunctions in Functional Discourse GrammarKees Hengeveld and Gerry Wanders | pp. 209–226
-
Tree tigers and tree elephants: a constructional account of English nominal compoundsMatthew Anstey | pp. 227–256
-
English constructions from a Dutch perspective: where are the differences?Arie Verhagen | pp. 257–274
-
Notes towards an incremental implementation of the Role and Reference Grammar semantics-to-syntax linking algorithm for EnglishChristopher S. Butler | pp. 275–307
-
Grammar, flow and procedural knowledge: structure and function at the interface between grammar and discoursePeter Harder | pp. 309–335
-
The non-linearity of speech productionMichael Fortescue | pp. 337–351
-
A speaker/hearer-based grammar: the case of possessives and compoundsTheo Janssen | pp. 353–387
-
Index | pp. 389–393
“The present volume makes an invaluable contribution to functional-cognitive linguistics in an number of significant ways.”
Francisco Gonzálev-García, University of Almería, in the Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, Vol. 6 (2008)
Cited by
Cited by 3 other publications
Rasulić, Katarina
[no author supplied]
2009. Publications received. Lingua 119:9 ► pp. 1366 ff. 
This list is based on CrossRef data as of 6 march 2023. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers. Any errors therein should be reported to them.
Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CF: Linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General