Morphosyntactic Expression in Functional Grammar (de Groot, Hengeveld)

[Julia Ulrich]

NEW FROM MOUTON DE GRUYTER

MORPHOSYNTACTIC EXPRESSION IN FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR
Edited by Casper de Groot and Kees Hengeveld

2005. x, 534 pages. Cloth. 
EUR 118.00 / sFr 189.00 / for USA, Canada, Mexico: US$ 165.20
ISBN 3-11-018365-X
(Functional Grammar Series 27)

Language of publication: English
Date of publication: 05/2005

http://www.degruyter.de/rs/bookSingle.cfm?id=IS-311018365X-1&l=E



Morphological and syntactic issues have received relatively little attention in Functional Grammar, due to the fact that this grammatical model, given its functional orientation, was primarily concerned with developing its pragmatic and semantic components. Now that these have been solidly developed, this book turns to the further development of the syntactic and morphological components of the model. 

Two recent developments receive pride of place: Bakker's Dynamic Expression Model and Hengeveld and Mackenzie's Functional Discourse Grammar. The first model aims at accounting for the complex interactions that one finds in many languages between the sets of expression rules that have to account for form on the one hand and those that establish order on the other. The second model takes a further step by considering morphosyntactic and phonological representations to be part of the underlying structure of the grammar rather than as the output of that grammar, contrary to the original assumptions in FG. 

The book accordingly contains synopses of these two proposals as well as applications of these to a variety of linguistic phenomena. Further articles provide detailed analyses of a range of semantic and pragmatic categories and their morphosyntactic expression in a wide variety of languages. The articles in this book contain data on some 60 different languages, including focused articles on phenomena in Arabic, Danish, English, Lengua de Señas Española, Mapudungun, Plains Cree, and Tanggu. 

In all, the contributions to this volume show that the issue of morphosyntactic expression in Functional Grammar is very much alive and moving into promising new directions, while at the same time contributing to a better understanding of a large number of morphosyntactic phenomena in a wide variety of languages. 
  
EDITORS:
Casper de Groot is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Theoretical Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 
Kees Hengeveld is Professor at the Department of Theoretical Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 
  
OF INTEREST TO: Researchers and Students interested in Functional Grammar and Morphosyntactic Issues; Scholars working in the Field of Descriptive Linguistics; Academic Libraries; Institutes 


FROM THE CONTENTS:

Agreement: More arguments for the dynamic expression model 
DIK BAKKER

Constituent ordering in the expression component of Functional Grammar 
JOHN H. CONNOLLY 

Dynamic expression in Functional Discourse Grammar 
KEES HENGEVELD 

Noun incorporation in Functional Discourse Grammar 
Niels Smit 

Morphosyntactic templates 
CASPER DE GROOT

A crosslinguistic study of 'locative inversion': Evidence for the Functional Discourse Grammar model 
FRANCIS CORNISH

The agreement cross-reference continuum: Person marking in FG 
ANNA SIEWIERSKA AND DIK BAKKER

The explanatory power of typological hierarchies: Developmental perspectives on non-verbal predication 
EVA H. VAN LIER 

Non-verbal predicability and copula support rule in Spanish Sign Language ÁNGEL HERRERO-BLANCO AND VENTURA SALAZAR-GARCÍA 

A new view on the semantics and pragmatics of operators of aspect, tense and quantification 
ANNERIEKE BOLAND 

Exclamation: Sentence type, illocution or modality? 
AHMED MOUTAOUAKIL 

Close appositions 
EVELIEN KEIZER 

Inversion and the absence of grammatical relations in Plains Cree 
AROK WOLVENGREY 

Direction diathesis and obviation in Functional Grammar: The case of the inverse in Mapudungun, an indigenous language of south central Chile 
OLE NEDERGAARD THOMSEN

Unexpected insertion or omission of an absolutive marker as an icon of a surprising turn of events in discourse 
JOHAN LOTTERMAN AND J. LACHLAN MACKENZIE

Pronominal expression rule ordering in Danish and the question of a discourse grammar 
LISBETH FALSTER JAKOBSEN 


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