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Function and structure : in honor of Susumu Kuno / edited by Akio Kamio, Ken-ichi Takami.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 59.
- Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; new ser. 59
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Functionalism (Linguistics).
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Structural linguistics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (412 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This collection of papers on functional syntax shows the development of a specific stream of functional linguistics initiated by Susumu Kuno of Harvard University. Inspired by Prague School linguists such as Jan Firbas and Vilém Mathesius, Kuno developed a more comprehensive and theory-oriented approach and linked it with the American formalist approach of generative grammar.His approach is thus a unique combination of functionalism and formalism that constantly urges the promotion of interactions between these two major trends in linguistics. The papers in this collection coherently dea
- Contents:
- FUNCTION AND STRUCTURE; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of Contents; Preface; A Comparison of Postposed Subjects in English and Italian; A Functional Constraint on Extraposition from NP; The Speech Act Empathy Hierarchy and Russian Possessives; Aspects of Hypothetical Meaning in Japanese Conditionals; A Context-Based Account of English Passives with Indefinite Subjects; Observations on Three Anaphoric Expressions in Japanese; Qualification and Point of View; Towards a Theory of Desirability in Conditional Reasoning
- Relative Tense and Absolute Tense in Adverbial Adjuncts in JapaneseSpecific NP in Scope; Some Referential Properties of English It and That; The Role of Empathy in Sentence Production; Personal Pronoun Shift in Japanese: A Case Study in Lexical Change and Point of View; Subject Index; Name Index; PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-16327-2
- 9786612163272
- 90-272-9907-2
- OCLC:
- 49838314
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