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Functionalism and Grammar.
This book is Prof. Givón's long-awaited critical examination of the fundamental theoretical and methodological underpinnings of the functionalist approach to grammar. It challenges functionalists to take their own medicine and establish non-circular empirical definitions of both 'function...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
1995.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- FUNCTIONALISM AND GRAMMAR; Dedication; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Preface; 1. Prospectus, Somewhat Jaundiced; 1.1. Historical notes; 1.1.1. Antecedence and antecedents; 1.1.2. The legacy of structuralism; 1.1.3. Direct descent; 1.2. From faith to theory; 1.3. Naive iconism and the reality of formal structure; 1.4. The mess inbetween discreteness and graduality; 1.5. Clear distinctions and partial overlaps; 1.6. Taking cognition and neurology seriously; 1.7. Typological diversity and language universals; 1.8. Methodology; 1.8.1. Intuition and its limits.
- 1.8.2. Induction and quantification1.8.3. Deductive reasoning; 1.8.4. Community; Notes; 2. Markedness as Meta-Iconicity:Distributional and Cognitive Correlatesof Syntactic Structure; 2.1. Introduction; 2.1.1. Markedness and explanation; 2.1.2. Brief historical note; 2.1.3. The context-dependence of markedness; 2.1.4. Criteria for markedness; 2.2. Markedness of discourse types; 2.2.1. Oral-informal vs. written-formal discourse; 2.2.1.1. Structural complexity; 2.2.1.2. Frequency distribution; 2.2.1.3. Cognitive complexity; 2.2.2. Human-affairs vs. abstract-academic discourse.
- 2.2.3. Conversation vs. narrative/procedural discourse2.3. Markedness of clause types; 2.3.1. Preamble; 2.3.2. Main vs. subordinate clauses; 2.3.2.1. Complexity and finiteness; 2.3.2.1.1. Finiteness in subordinate clauses; 2.3.2.1.2. Finiteness in conjoined main clauses; 2.3.2.2. Frequency distribution; 2.3.2.3. Cognitive complexity; 2.3.2.4. Other substantive considerations; 2.3.3. The markedness of speech-act types; 2.3.3.1. Structural complexity; 2.3.3.2. Frequency distribution; 2.3.3.3. Cognitive complexity; 2.3.3.4. Other substantive considerations.
- 2.3.4. Markedness of affirmative and negative clauses2.3.4.1. Structural complexity; 2.3.4.2. Frequency distribution; 2.3.4.3. Cognitive complexity; 2.3.5. Markedness of active and passive voice; 2.3.5.1. Structural complexity; 2.3.5.2. Text frequency; 2.3.5.3. Cognitive complexity; 2.3.5.4. Other substantive considerations; 2.4. Markedness of nominal modalities; 2.4.1. Preamble; 2.4.2. Case-role and markedness; 2.4.2.1. The topic hierarchies; 2.4.2.2. Structural complexity; 2.4.2.3. Frequency distribution; 2.4.2.4. Cognitive complexity; 2.4.3. Referentiality and individuation.
- 2.4.4. Definiteness2.4.4.1. Structural complexity; 2.4.4.2. Frequency distribution; 2.4.4.3. Cognitive complexity; 2.4.5. Anaphoric status; 2.4.5.1. Structural complexity; 2.4.5.2. Frequency distribution; 2.4.5.3. Cognitive complexity; 2.4.6. Topicality and referential continuity; 2.4.6.1. Continuous vs. discontinuous topics; 2.4.6.2. Structural complexity; 2.4.6.3. Frequency distribution; 2.4.6.4. Cognitive complexity; 2.5. Markedness of verbal modalities; 2.5.1. Suggested markedness values; 2.5.2. Structural complexity; 2.5.3. Frequency distribution; 2.5.4. Substantive considerations.