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Functional Descriptions : Theory in practice.
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 relat...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
1996.
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| Colección: | Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ;
v. 121. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- FUNCTIONAL DESCRIPTIONS THEORY IN PRACTICE; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; About the Authors; Theories, Maps and Descriptions: An Introduction; 1. On Grammar and Grammatics; 2. On the Idea of Theory-Neutral Descriptions; 3. Ditransitivity and Possession; 4. So Grammarians Haven't the Faintest Idea: Reconciling Lexis-oriented and Grammar-oriented Approaches to Language; 5. The Semantics of Get-Passives; 6. Causation in Dutch and French: Interpersonal aspects; 7. Process Types in Finnish: Implicate Order, Covert Categories, and Prototypes.
- 8. The 'Complement' in Chinese Grammar: A Functional Reinterpretation9. Pitjantjatjara Processes: An Australian Experiential Grammar; 10. Metalinguistic diversity: the Case from Case; Index.