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Constituent order in functional grammar : synchronic and diachronic perspectives /
The purpose of the present work is to explore the description of Constituent Ordering (CO) within the Functional Grammar (FG) framework. The aim is to show how it is possible to achieve a comprehensive description of CO and of CO change which takes properly into account not only the formal or struct...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
Foris Publications,
1991.
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| Colección: | Functional grammar series ;
14. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Constituent order structure and function ; Fundamentals of positional syntax
- Factors affecting the order of constituents
- Constituent order in relation to morphology and phonology
- Approaches to the description of positional syntax
- Constituent order typology
- Synchronic functional description ; The appeal of the functional approach
- Towards a more adequate framework
- Clause-rank constituents
- Phrase-rank constituents
- Coordinate and appositive structures
- Order of the various sets of rules
- Closing remarks
- Diachronic functional description ; Some theoretical issues
- The functional description of constituent order change
- Morphosyntactic change
- The explanation of change
- Conclusion.