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Functional descriptions : theory in practice / edited by Ruqaiya Hasan, Carmel Cloran, David Butt.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; Series IV, v. 121.
- Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, 0604-0763 ; v. 121
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Functionalism (Linguistics).
- Metalanguage.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (417 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., c1996.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume focuses on the relation between theory and description by examining aspects of transitivity in different languages. Transitivity - or case grammar, to use the popular term - has always occupied a centre-stage position in linguistics, not least because of its supposedly privileged relation to states of affairs in the real world. Using a systemic functional perspective, the ten papers in this volume make a contribution to this scholarship by focusing on the transitivity patterns in language as the expression of the experiential metafunction. Through a study of different languages - E
- Contents:
- Theories, maps, and descriptions / Davis Butt
- On grammar and grammatics / M.A.K. Halliday
- On the idea of theory-neutral descriptions / Christian Matthiessen and Christopher Nesbitt
- Ditransitivity and possession / Kristin Davidse
- So grammarians haven't the faintest idea : reconciling lexis-oriented and grammar-oriented approaches to language / Gordon H. Tucker
- The semantics of get-passives / Angela Downing
- Causation in Dutch and French : interpersonal aspects / Liesbeth Degand
- Process types in Finnish / Susanna Shore
- The "complement" in Chinese grammar / Edward McDonald
- Pitjantjatjara processes : an Australian experiential grammar / David Rose
- Metalinguistic diversity : the case from case / J.R. Martin.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-31262-X
- 9786613312624
- 90-272-7630-7
- OCLC:
- 759101577
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