Functional grammar : a field approach / by Alexander V. Bondarko ; translated by I.S. Chulaki.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bondarko, A. V. (Aleksandr Vladimirovich)

Contributor:

Chulaki, I. S.

Series:

Linguistic & literary studies in Eastern Europe ; v. 35.

Linguistic & literary studies in Eastern Europe (LLSEE), 0165-7712 ; v. 35

Standardized Title:

Funkt͡sionalʹnai͡a grammatika. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Functionalism (Linguistics).

Russian language--Grammar.

Russian language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (215 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1991.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Every grammar has to a greater or lesser extent a functional aspect. In this book, Bondarko provides a comprehensive discourse on the theoretical foundations of grammar, concentrating on functional-semantic fields, with emphasis on the diversity of their structural types. Criteria for distinguishing between linguistically structured meaning and non-linguistic cognitive content is developed in a discussion on "the Category of Aspect and its Environment" which includes an analysis of aspectual opposition according to the Prague School. Special attention is also paid to analysing polycentric fiel

Contents:

FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR: A FIELD APPROACH; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Preface; Table of contents; Chapter I. Functional grammar: subject matter and goals; General view; Types of functional-grammatical description; The concept of function; The interpretational component of language content; Semantic categories of grammar; Intercategorial relations of functions; Interaction of system and environment; THE CATEGORY OF ASPECT AND ITS ENVIRONMENT IN THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE; General survey; The types of limit; Internal and external limit; Real and potential limit

Explicit and implicit limitAbsolute and relative limit; Limitativity as a functional-semantic field; The varieties of limitative relations; Limitedness/unlimitedness of the action. The meanings of aspect.; Orientation towards limit (result)/Attainment of limit; Terminativity/Aterminativity; Limitative situations; Chapter II. Structural types of functional-semantic fields; The diversity of types of functional-semantic fields; Taxis in the Russian language; General survey; Restrictions specifying the sphere of taxis relations; Taxis and relative tense

The structure of the taxis field in the Russian languageThe meanings of dependent and independent taxis; The opposition of dependent and independent taxis; Is taxis a grammatical category?; The correlation of primary and secondary predication in dependent taxis constructions; Peripheral components of dependent taxis; The hierarchy of the expressive means of independent taxis; Taxis situations and their relations with aspectuality; Chapter III. Categorial situations; Introductory remarks; Dominant categorial situations

On the universal and concrete-language aspects of the concept of categorial situationAttitude to existing theories; Concluding remarks on categorial situations; Notes; References; Subject index; Name index

Notes:

Translation of: Funkt͡sionalʹnsi͡a grammatika.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-199) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-283-32815-1

9786613328151

90-272-7779-6

OCLC:

769341967