Directions in Functional Linguistics.
Functional linguistics is concerned with the function of language and considers it an essense of human language. Views like this is not particularly new, but rather traditional in the history of linguistics. But today functional linguistics is constituted by a wide range of theoretical and methodolo...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
1997.
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Colección: | Studies in language companion series ;
v. 36. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; Preface; Contributors; Dispersed Verbal Predicates in Vernacular Written Narrative; Deontic Modality and Conditionality in Discourse: A Cross-linguistic Study of Adult Speech to Young Children; Discourse Motivations for the Core-Oblique Distinction as a Language Universal; Agentivity and Aspect in Japanese: A Functional Perspective; On the Functions of Left-Dislocation in English Discourse; Evidentiality and Some Discourse Characteristics in Japanese; On Japanese Quantifier Floating; The Battle over Anaphoric 'Islands': Syntax vs. Pragmatics
- Structural or Functional Accounts?Index of Names; Index of Subjects