New Book from Benjamins: Hannay/Steen: Structural-Functional Studies in English Grammar

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This is a new functionally-relevant book from John Benjamins Publishing:

Structural-Functional Studies in English Grammar

In honour of Lachlan Mackenzie

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Edited by Mike Hannay and Gerard J. Steen
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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in Language Companion Series 83
URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=SLCS%2083
2007. vi, 393 pp.

Hardbound  978 90 272 3093 5 / EUR 125.00 / USD 188.00
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This collection presents a number of studies in the lexico-grammar of 
English which focus on the one hand on close reading of language in 
context and on the other hand on current functional theoretical 
concerns. The various contributions represent distinct functionalist 
models of language, including Functional Grammar and Functional 
Discourse Grammar, Systemic-Functional Grammar, Role and Reference 
Grammar, Cognitive Grammar and Construction Grammar. Taken together, 
however, they typify current work being conducted from the 
grammatical perspective within the functionalist enterprise, 
emphasizing on the relation between structure and usage. A 
fundamental goal of the enterprise is to identify linguistic 
structures which are constrained by specific features of use, or 
which actually encode specific features of use, as many of the 
contributions here show.

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Table of contents

Introduction
1–5
Part I. Corpus-based studies
<http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_articles.cgi?bookid=SLCS%2083&artid=938091918>No 
doubt<http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_articles.cgi?bookid=SLCS%2083&artid=938091918> 
and related expressions: A functional account
Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen
9–34
<http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_articles.cgi?bookid=SLCS%2083&artid=171091919>On 
certainly and 
zeker<http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_articles.cgi?bookid=SLCS%2083&artid=171091919> 

Pieter Byloo, Richard Kastein and Jan Nuyts
35–57
<http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_articles.cgi?bookid=SLCS%2083&artid=335091920>Prenominal 
possessives in English: Function and use
Evelien Keizer
59–82
<http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_articles.cgi?bookid=SLCS%2083&artid=388091921>Ditransitive 
clauses in English with special reference to Lancashire dialect
Anna Siewierska and Willem Hollmann
83–102
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was you that told me that, wasn't it?' 
It<http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_articles.cgi?bookid=SLCS%2083&artid=695091922>-clefts 
revisited in discourse
María de los Ángeles Gómez González
103–139
<http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_articles.cgi?bookid=SLCS%2083&artid=732091923>Another 
take on the notion Subject
Dik Bakker and Anna Siewierska
141–158
<http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_articles.cgi?bookid=SLCS%2083&artid=859091924>The 
modal auxiliaries of English, -operators in Functional Grammar and "grounding"
Louis Goossens
159–173
<http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_articles.cgi?bookid=SLCS%2083&artid=990091925>The 
king is on 
huntunge<http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_articles.cgi?bookid=SLCS%2083&artid=990091925>: 
on the relation between progressive and absentive in Old and Early 
Modern English
Casper de Groot
175–190
Part II. The architecture of functional models
<http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_articles.cgi?bookid=SLCS%2083&artid=500091927>Mental 
context and the expression of terms within the English clause: An 
approach based on Functional Discourse Grammar
John H. Connolly
193–208
<http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_articles.cgi?bookid=SLCS%2083&artid=530091928>Adverbial 
conjunctions in Functional Discourse Grammar
Kees Hengeveld and Gerry Wanders
209–226
<http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_articles.cgi?bookid=SLCS%2083&artid=641091929>Tree 
tigers and tree 
elephants<http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_articles.cgi?bookid=SLCS%2083&artid=641091929>: 
a constructional account of English nominal compounds
Matthew Anstey
227–256
<http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_articles.cgi?bookid=SLCS%2083&artid=709091930>English 
constructions from a Dutch perspective: where are the differences?
Arie Verhagen
257–274
<http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_articles.cgi?bookid=SLCS%2083&artid=859091931>Notes 
towards an incremental implementation of the Role and Reference 
Grammar semantics-to-syntax linking algorithm for English
Christopher S. Butler
275–307
<http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_articles.cgi?bookid=SLCS%2083&artid=25091932>Grammar, 
flow and procedural knowledge: structure and function at the 
interface between grammar and discourse
Peter Harder
309–335
<http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_articles.cgi?bookid=SLCS%2083&artid=6091933>The 
non-linearity of speech production
Michael Fortescue
337–351
<http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_articles.cgi?bookid=SLCS%2083&artid=182091934>A 
speaker/hearer-based grammar: the case of possessives and compounds
Theo Janssen
353–387
Index
389–393

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