Functional descriptions : theory in practice /
Functional descriptions : theory in practice /
edited by Ruqaiya Hasan, Carmel Cloran, David Butt.
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©1996.
- 1 online resource (xxxv, 381 pages) : illustrations.
- Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, v. 121 0604-0763 ; .
- Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 121. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Theories, maps, and descriptions / Davis Butt -- On grammar and grammatics / M.A.K. Halliday -- On the idea of theory-neutral descriptions / Christian Matthiessen and Christopher Nesbitt -- Ditransitivity and possession / Kristin Davidse -- So grammarians haven't the faintest idea : reconciling lexis-oriented and grammar-oriented approaches to language / Gordon H. Tucker -- The semantics of get-passives / Angela Downing -- Causation in Dutch and French : interpersonal aspects / Liesbeth Degand -- Process types in Finnish / Susanna Shore -- The "complement" in Chinese grammar / Edward McDonald -- Pitjantjatjara processes : an Australian experiential grammar / David Rose -- Metalinguistic diversity : the case from case / J.R. Martin.
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This volume focuses on the relation between theory and description by examining aspects of transitivity in different languages. Transitivity or case grammar, to use the popular term has always occupied a centre-stage position in linguistics, not least because of its supposedly privileged relation to states of affairs in the real world. Using a systemic functional perspective, the ten papers in this volume make a contribution to this scholarship by focusing on the transitivity patterns in language as the expression of the experiential metafunction. Through a study of different languages English, Dutch, German, Finnish, Chinese and Pitjantjatjara the contributors provide functional descriptions of the various categories of process, their participants and circumstances, including phenomena such as di-transitivity, causativity, the get-passive, etc. With the relation between theories and descriptions running through the ten chapters of this volume as sometimes an overt and sometimes a covert theme, the chapters point to the nature of the linguistic fact which is linked ineluctably on the one hand to the nature of the theory and on the other to the speakers experience of the world in which they live. The majority of papers included in the volume derive from the 19th International Systemic Functional Congress at Macquarie University.
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9789027276308 (electronic bk.) 9027276307 (electronic bk.) 9027236240 9789027236241 (alk. paper) (Eur.) (alk. paper)
9789027236241
96019286
Grammar, Comparative and general.
Functionalism (Linguistics)
Metalanguage.
Grammaire comparée et générale.
Fonctionnalisme (Linguistique)
Métalangage.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Linguistics--Syntax.
Functionalism (Linguistics)
Grammar, Comparative and general.
Metalanguage.
Funktionalismus
Methodologie
Functionele taalkunde.
Systemic grammar.
Fonctionnalisme (linguistique)--Congrès.
Grarmmaire comparée et générale.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
P201 / .F778 1996eb
415
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Theories, maps, and descriptions / Davis Butt -- On grammar and grammatics / M.A.K. Halliday -- On the idea of theory-neutral descriptions / Christian Matthiessen and Christopher Nesbitt -- Ditransitivity and possession / Kristin Davidse -- So grammarians haven't the faintest idea : reconciling lexis-oriented and grammar-oriented approaches to language / Gordon H. Tucker -- The semantics of get-passives / Angela Downing -- Causation in Dutch and French : interpersonal aspects / Liesbeth Degand -- Process types in Finnish / Susanna Shore -- The "complement" in Chinese grammar / Edward McDonald -- Pitjantjatjara processes : an Australian experiential grammar / David Rose -- Metalinguistic diversity : the case from case / J.R. Martin.
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This volume focuses on the relation between theory and description by examining aspects of transitivity in different languages. Transitivity or case grammar, to use the popular term has always occupied a centre-stage position in linguistics, not least because of its supposedly privileged relation to states of affairs in the real world. Using a systemic functional perspective, the ten papers in this volume make a contribution to this scholarship by focusing on the transitivity patterns in language as the expression of the experiential metafunction. Through a study of different languages English, Dutch, German, Finnish, Chinese and Pitjantjatjara the contributors provide functional descriptions of the various categories of process, their participants and circumstances, including phenomena such as di-transitivity, causativity, the get-passive, etc. With the relation between theories and descriptions running through the ten chapters of this volume as sometimes an overt and sometimes a covert theme, the chapters point to the nature of the linguistic fact which is linked ineluctably on the one hand to the nature of the theory and on the other to the speakers experience of the world in which they live. The majority of papers included in the volume derive from the 19th International Systemic Functional Congress at Macquarie University.
Electronic reproduction.
[S.l.] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2010.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
9789027276308 (electronic bk.) 9027276307 (electronic bk.) 9027236240 9789027236241 (alk. paper) (Eur.) (alk. paper)
9789027236241
96019286
Grammar, Comparative and general.
Functionalism (Linguistics)
Metalanguage.
Grammaire comparée et générale.
Fonctionnalisme (Linguistique)
Métalangage.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Linguistics--Syntax.
Functionalism (Linguistics)
Grammar, Comparative and general.
Metalanguage.
Funktionalismus
Methodologie
Functionele taalkunde.
Systemic grammar.
Fonctionnalisme (linguistique)--Congrès.
Grarmmaire comparée et générale.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
P201 / .F778 1996eb
415