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This book provides ten case studies in Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG), a typologically-oriented theory of the organization of natural languages that has ris
A Functional Discourse Grammar for English
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Authors: Evelien Keizer
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This textbook explores functional discourse grammar, a recently developed theory of language structure which analyses utterances at the pragmatic, semantic, mor
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In grammar design, a basic distinction is made between derivational and modular architectures. This raises the question of which organization of grammar can dea
A Functional Discourse Grammar Theory of Grammaticalization
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The volume surveys over a hundred diachronic changes from typologically diverse languages and concludes that the definitional property of meaning change in gram
Recent Developments in Functional Discourse Grammar
Language: en
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This volume presents a collection of papers using the theory of Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG) to analyse and explain a number of specific constructions or