A New Architecture for Functional Grammar

by Mackenzie, J. Lachlan; Gomez-Gonzalez, Maria de los Angeles

• ISBN13: 9783110173567
• ISBN10: 3110173565
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-09-15
• Publisher: Mouton De Gruyter

Summary

This volume, which represents a major advance on Simon Dik's final statement of the theory (1997), lays the foundation for the future evolution of FG towards a Functional Discourse Grammar. It rises to the double challenge of specifying the interface between discourse and grammar and of detailing the expression rules that link semantic representation and morphosyntactic form. The opening chapter, by Kees Hengeveld, sets out in programmatic form a new architecture for FG which both preserves the best of the traditional model and offers a place for numerous recent insights. The remaining chapters are devoted to refining and developing the programme laid down by Hengeveld, bringing in data from a range of languages as well as theoretical insights inspired by adjoining frameworks. Of special interest are an account by Matthew Anstey of how current proposals arise from the history of FG and various chapters in which the model is brought much closer to an account of real-time language production, notably including the first ever detailed account of the workings of expression rules, by Dik Bakker and Anna Siewierska. The final chapter, also by Hengeveld, draws together the findings of the various chapters, culminating in an elaborated model that represents the most sophisticated statement of Functional Grammar currently available. The volume thus gives a coherent account of FG as a theory which combines formal explicitness with a broad account of language functions.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Abbreviations	xiii
The Architecture of a Functional Discourse Grammar	1	(22)
Kees Hengeveld
Functional Grammar from its inception	23	(50)
Matthew P. Anstey
Behind the scenes: Cognition and Functional Discourse Grammar	73	(16)
Carlos Inchaurralde
The question of discourse representation in Functional Discourse Grammar	89	(28)
John Connolly
Focus of attention in discourse	117	(34)
Francis Cornish
The complementarity of the process and pattern interpretations of Functional Grammar	151	(28)
Michael Fortescue
Functional Discourse Grammar and language production	179	(18)
J. Lachlan Mackenzie
Comment clauses, Functional Discourse Grammar and the grammar-discourse interface	197	(14)
Peter Harder
Functional Grammar and the dynamics of Discourse	211	(32)
Maria de los Angeles Gomez-Gonzalez
The problem of subjective modality in the Functional Grammar model	243	(32)
Jean-Christophe Verstraete
Remarks on layering in a cognitive-functional language production model	275	(24)
Jan Nuyts
Discourse structure, the Generalized Parallelism Hypothesis and the architecture of Functional Grammar	299	(26)
Ahmed Moutaouakil
Towards a speaker model of Functional Grammar	325	(40)
Dik Bakker
Anna Siewierska
Epilogue	365	(14)
Kees Hengeveld
Index of names	379	(5)
Index of subjects	384