Functional Grammar : a Field Approach.
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
1991.
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Colección: | Linguistic & literary studies in Eastern Europe ;
v. 35. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.