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The Discourse Functions of Nonverbal Appositives
Journal of English Linguistics, 2013This article investigates the discourse functions of nonverbal appositives: noun phrases, prepositional phrases, and adjective phrases in apposition to a preceding nominal unit. Given the many similarities between nonverbal appositives and appositive relative clauses, the discourse functions of the latter serve as a starting point for an evaluation of ...
Loock, Rudy, Kathleen, O'Connor
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Journal of Pragmatics, 1986
Abstract Difficulties associated with the semantic and pragmatic description of and can be profitably addressed by moving its analysis to a discourse level. The main advantages of this shift are that it offers both a speaker-based view of function, and a systematic view of context.
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Abstract Difficulties associated with the semantic and pragmatic description of and can be profitably addressed by moving its analysis to a discourse level. The main advantages of this shift are that it offers both a speaker-based view of function, and a systematic view of context.
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Casebook in Functional Discourse Grammar
2013This book provides ten case studies in Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG), a typologically-oriented theory of the organization of natural languages that has risen to prominence in recent years. The authors, all committed practitioners of FDG, include Kees Hengeveld, the intellectual father of the theory, who shows how it offers a radically new approach
Mackenzie, J.L., Olbertz, H.
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The Discourse Function of Close Appositions
Neophilologus, 2005Over the years various analyses have been proposed for constructions like my friend John, the Poet Burns and Burns the poet – so-called close appositions. It is generally recognized that, on the basis of their semantic an syntactic properties, various subtypes can be distinguished.
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2006
AbstractThis chapter introduces Functional Discourse Grammar, a typologically based model of language structure, and is organized as follows. Section 15.2 provides a general outline of the model and its place as the grammatical component of a wide theory of verbal interaction.
Hengeveld, K., Lachlan Mackenzie, J.
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AbstractThis chapter introduces Functional Discourse Grammar, a typologically based model of language structure, and is organized as follows. Section 15.2 provides a general outline of the model and its place as the grammatical component of a wide theory of verbal interaction.
Hengeveld, K., Lachlan Mackenzie, J.
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2015
AbstractThe chapter first summarizes the syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic properties of the topic–comment structure in the Hungarian sentence. It describes the topic as a constituent external to the extended verbal projection, binding an empty argument in the comment, derived by topic movement or base-generated in situ.
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AbstractThe chapter first summarizes the syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic properties of the topic–comment structure in the Hungarian sentence. It describes the topic as a constituent external to the extended verbal projection, binding an empty argument in the comment, derived by topic movement or base-generated in situ.
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The Function of Modal Discourse
2020Abstract This chapter begins to develop a neo-pragmatist view of modal discourse that (contrary to most work in the recent metaphysical tradition) denies that talk of what is possible or necessary serves a descriptive function. Instead, the chapter argues that the modal terminology serves a normative function.
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The Function of Discourse Particles
1998This monograph aims to contribute to linguistic knowledge about the distribution and function of discourse particles, particularly with respect to a small group of particles which are highly frequent in contemporary spoken standard French. The book is divided into two parts.
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1998
Abstract The description and quantification of FEIs and their characteristics helps to define them in relation to the lexicon, but not in relation to discourse. An analysis of the worm turns in OHPC shows that it occurs 6 times, or once in every 3 million words, just above the significance threshold; that its clausal structure of fixed ...
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Abstract The description and quantification of FEIs and their characteristics helps to define them in relation to the lexicon, but not in relation to discourse. An analysis of the worm turns in OHPC shows that it occurs 6 times, or once in every 3 million words, just above the significance threshold; that its clausal structure of fixed ...
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Functional Discourse Grammar: pragmatic aspects
2009This chapter introduces Functional Discourse Grammar, focusing on the way in which this model is capable of accounting for the grammatical encoding of pragmatic distinctions and for the typological variation found in this area of grammar.
Hannay, M., Hengeveld, K.
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