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Modification in Functional Discourse Grammar: State of the art and issues addressed
Open Linguistics, 2022 This is an introduction to the Special Issue on Modification in Functional Discourse Grammar.
Keizer Evelien +2 more
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English partitives in Functional Discourse Grammar: types and constraints
Glossa, 2017 The aim of this paper is to provide a unified analysis of partitive constructions like one/some of the boxes which, unlike previous accounts, succeeds in accounting for (i) both their internal structure and the constraints on the embedded NP, and (ii ...
Evelien Keizer
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Reflecting on Functional Discourse Grammar as i self-isolate
Cadernos de Linguística, 2021 These reflections, composed during a period of self-isolation in Lisbon, begin by sketching how Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG) finds its origins in Simon Dik’s Functional Grammar and then briefly set out some of the major principles of FDG.
J. Lachlan Mackenzie
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Headedness and modification in Functional Discourse Grammar
Glossa, 2020 The notions of head and modifier are two basic tenets of general linguistic theory and play a fundamental role in the view of grammatical structure endorsed by Functional Discourse Grammar. The aim of this paper is to refine the theory’s current approach
Riccardo Giomi
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Negation in Functional Discourse Grammar [PDF]
Studies in Language Companion Series, 2018 Abstract The purpose of this chapter is to show that the model of Functional Discourse Grammar can be used to provide a detailed classification of expressions of negation by taking its hierarchical, layered structure as the point of departure. The chapter thus follows up on ideas first launched in Dik (1997) concerning the various layers of Functional ...
Kees Hengeveld, J. Lachlan Mackenzie
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Functional Discourse Grammar [PDF]
, 2018 This volume presents a collection of papers using the theory of Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG) to analyse and explain a number of specific constructions or phenomena (external possessor contructions and binominal constructions, negation, modification, modality, polysynthesis and transparency) from different perspectives, language-specific ...
Evelien Keizer, Hella Olbertz
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Grammar and context in Functional Discourse Grammar [PDF]
Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), 2015 This article presents a proposal for the organization of the Contextual Component in Functional Discourse Grammar. A guiding principle in this proposal is that, given the fact that Functional Discourse Grammar is a theory of grammar, the Contextual Component should provide the information that is necessary for a proper functioning of the grammar rather
Kees Hengeveld, J. Lachlan Mackenzie
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Linguistics, 2019 Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG) is an expanded version of the Functional Grammar framework developed by Simon Dik at the University of Amsterdam from the 1970s through the middle of the 1990s. It occupies a middle position in the functional-to-formal continuum: it is functional in being centrally concerned with the effects of pragmatics and ...
I. Genee
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Modularity and derivation in Functional Discourse Grammar
DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada, 2017 Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG) is a typologically-based theory of language structure which is organized in levels, layers and components. In this paper, I will claim that FDG is modular in Sadock’s sense, as it presents four independent levels of ...
Daniel GARCÍA VELASCO
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The Perfect in (Brazilian) Portuguese: A Functional Discourse Grammar View
Open Linguistics, 2018 In most Germanic and Romance languages the present perfect has developed from a resultative meaning via an anterior into absolute past. In Functional Discourse Grammar terms this corresponds to the grammaticalization of a phasal aspectual operator at the
Olbertz Hella
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