A functional discourse grammar for English
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A functional discourse grammar for English
（Oxford textbooks in linguistics）
Oxford University Press, 2015
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-328) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is the first textbook on Functional Discourse Grammar, a recently developed theory of language structure which analyses utterances at four independent levels of grammatical representation: pragmatic, semantic, morphosyntactic and phonological. The book offers a very systematic and highly accessible introduction to the theory: following the top-down organization of the model, it takes the reader step-by-step though the various levels of analysis (from pragmatics
down to phonology), while at the same time providing a detailed account of the interaction between these different levels. The many exercises, categorized according to degree of difficulty, ensure that students are challenged to use the theory in a creative manner, and invite them to test and
evaluate the theory by applying it to the new data in various linguistic contexts.
Evelien Keizer uses examples from a variety of sources to demonstrate how the theory of Functional Discourse Grammar can be used to analyse and explain the most important functional and formal features of present-day English. The book also contains examples from a wide variety of other typologically diverse languages, making it attractive not only to students of English linguistics but to anyone interested in linguistic theory more generally.
Table of Contents
- 1. Why Functional Discourse Grammar?
- 2. The general architecture of FDG
- 3. The Interpersonal Level
- 4. The Representational Level
- 5. The Morphosyntactic Level
- 6. The Phonological Level
- 7. Sample representations
- Glossary
- List of languages
- References
- Index
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