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Like its companion volume, this book offers a detailed description and comparison of three major structural-functional theories: Functional Grammar, Role and Reference Grammar and Systemic Functional Grammar, illustrated throughout with corpus-derived examples from English and other languages. Whereas Part 1 confines itself largely to the simplex clause, Part 2 moves from the clause towards the discourse and its context. The first three chapters deal with the areas of illocution, information structuring (topic and focus, theme and rheme, given and new information, etc.), and clause combining within complex sentences. Chapter 4 examines approaches to discourse, text and context across the three theories. The fifth chapter deals with the learning of language by both native and non-native speakers, and applications of the theories in stylistics, computational linguistics, translation and contrastive studies, and language pathology. The final chapter assesses the extent to which each theory attains the goals it sets for itself, and then outlines a programme for the development of an integrated approach responding to a range of criteria of descriptive and explanatory adequacy.

Lexicology. Semantics --- Psycholinguistics --- Comparative linguistics --- Grammar --- Structural linguistics --- Functionalism (Linguistics) --- Role and reference grammar --- Systemic grammar --- Functionalism (Linguistics). --- Role and reference grammar. --- Structural linguistics. --- Systemic grammar. --- 801.56 --- 801.56 Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Philology & Linguistics --- Languages & Literatures --- Neo-Firthian linguistics --- Scale-and-category grammar --- System-structure grammar --- Systemic linguistics --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) --- Functional analysis (Linguistics) --- Functional grammar --- Functional linguistics --- Functional-structural analysis (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Functional --- Grammatical functions --- Linguistics

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Discourse analysis. --- Functionalism (Linguistics) --- Pragmatics. --- Grammar --- Pragmatics --- Discourse analysis --- Analyse du discours --- Fonctionnalisme (Linguistique) --- Pragmatique --- Functional analysis (Linguistics) --- Functional grammar --- Functional linguistics --- Functional-structural analysis (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Functional --- Grammatical functions --- Pragmalinguistics --- General semantics --- Language and languages --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Linguistics --- Structural linguistics --- Discourse grammar --- Text grammar --- Semantics --- Semiotics --- Philosophy

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The articles in this volume analyse the noun phrase within the framework of Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG), the successor to Simon C. Dik's Functional Grammar. In its current form, FDG has an explicit top-down organization and distinguishes four hierarchically organized, interacting levels: (i) the interpersonal level (language as communicational process), (ii) the representational level (language as a carrier of content), (iii) the morphosyntactic level and (iv) the phonological level. Together they constitute the grammatical component, which in its turn interacts with a cognitive and a communicative component. This comprehensive approach to linguistic analysis is also reflected in this volume, which contains rich and substantial contributions concerning many different aspects of the noun phrase. At the same time, the analysis of a major linguistic construction from various perspectives is an excellent way to test a new model of grammar with regard to some of the standards of adequacy for linguistic theories. The book contains several papers dealing with matters of representation and formalization of the noun phrase (the articles by Kees Hengeveld, José Luis González Escribano, Jan Rijkhoff and Evelien Keizer). Other contributors are more concerned with the practical application of the model with regard to discourse-interpersonal matters (Chris Butler, John H. Connolly), whereas the chapters by Dik Bakker and Roland Pfau and by Daniel García Velasco deal with morphosyntactic issues. In all, the variety of issues addressed and the range of languages considered prove that one of the important advantages of the FDG model is precisely the fact that grammatical phenomena can be treated from a semantic, pragmatic, morpho-syntactic, phonological or textual perspective in a coherent fashion.

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Functional discourse grammar. --- Functional grammar --- Discourse analysis --- Functionalism (Linguistics) --- Noun phrase --- Subject (Grammar) --- Noun phrase. --- Complex nominals --- Subject --- Nominals --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Functional Grammar. --- syntax.