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"This volume contains revised and expanded papers from the conference on functional grammar in Amsterdam, June 1988 and other papers inspired by the discussion there. These papers focus on the nature of the structures assumed to underlie utterences in natural languages, in two respects. One area is the question of whether to expand the representations accepted in functional grammar (FG) in order to capture ""interpersonal functions"". For example, communication between speaker and hearer in a particular situation and context, to include, for example, aspect, tense, modality and illocutionary force. The second area concerns whether current underlying representation in FG is sufficiently abstract to be the format for the deepest level of human conceptual knowledge storage, as discussed by Simon Dik in a number of recent articles."

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Author:   Jan Nuyts ,  A. Machtelt Bolkestein ,  Co Vet
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   13
Weight:   0.785kg
ISBN:  

9789027250230

ISBN 10:   9027250235
Pages:   348
Publication Date:   01 January 1990
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. List of contributors; 2. Preface; 3. The hierarchical structure of utterances (by Hengeveld, Kees); 4. The hierarchical structure of the clause and the typology of adverbial satellites (by Dik, Simon C.); 5. Sentential complements in functional grammar: Embedded predications, propositions, utterances in Latin (by Bolkestein, A. Machtelt); 6. Semantic relations in non-verbal predication (by Hengeveld, Kees); 7. Asymmetries in the use of tense and modality (by Vet, Co); 8. Tense, semantics and layered syntax (by Harder, Peter); 9. Toward a unified analysis of terms and predications (by Rijkhoff, Jan); 10. Layered syntax in role and reference grammar (by Van Valin Jr., Robert D.); 11. On the semantics of conditionals (by Dik, Simon C.); 12. Linguistic representation and conceptual knowledge representation (by Nuyts, Jan); 13. The functional grammar computational natural language user and psychological adequacy (by Hesp, Cees); 14. Context and language (by Hjelmquist, Erland); 15. Subject index; 16. Index of names; 17. Index of languages

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