A New Architecture for Functional Grammar

by J. Lachlan MacKenzie

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110173565
• ISBN13: 9783110173567
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
• Length: 407 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary