The Structure of the Clause

Simon C. Dik

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN: 9783110154047
• eBook ISBN: 9783110218367
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Lingue e linguistica
• Subtopic: Grammatica e punteggiatura

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Table of contents

• List of tables and figures
• Abbreviations used in FG-representations
• 1. Methodological preliminaries
• 1.0. Introduction
• 1.1. Functional Grammar
• 1.2. The functional paradigm
• 1.3. Some aspects of verbal interaction
• 1.4. Standards of adequacy
• 1.5. Abstractness, concreteness, and applicability
• 1.6. Take languages seriously
• 1.7. Constraints on the power of FG
• 2. Some basic concepts of linguistic theory
• 2.0. Introduction
• 2.1. The importance of functional notions
• 2.2. Linguistic universals
• 2.3. Hierarchies
• 2.4. Priorities
• 2.5. Markedness
• 3. Preview of Functional Grammar
• 3.0. Introduction
• 3.1. The structure of the clause
• 3.2. The structure of FG
• 3.3. The structure of this work
• 4. The nuclear predication
• 4.0. Introduction
• 4.1. The nuclear predication
• 4.2. Predicate frames
• 4.3. Meaning postulates and meaning definitions
• 4.4. Idioms
• 5. States of Affairs and semantic fonctions
• 5.0. Introduction
• 5.1. States of Affairs, predicates, and “Modes of Action”
• 5.2. Semantic parameters for a typology of SoAs
• 5.3. Nuclear semantic functions
• 5.4. Predication, State of Affaire, and “Reality”
• 6. On the function and structure of terms
• 6.0. Introduction
• 6.1. The nature of reference
• 6.2. The structure of terms
• 6.3. A typology of entities
• 6.4. Types of restrictors
• 6.5. The representation of personal pronouns
• 6.6. Types of relations between terms and predicate
• 7. Term operators
• 7.0. Introduction
• 7.1. Operators in FG
• 7.2. Semantic domains of term operators
• 7.3. Qualifying term operators
• 7.4. Quantifying term operators
• 7.5. Localizing term operators
• 8. Non-verbal predicates
• 8.0. Introduction
• 8.1. Categorial differences between predicates
• 8.2. Adjectival predicates
• 8.3. Copula support
• 8.4. Nominal predicates
• 8.5. Adpositional predicates
• 8.6. Possessive predicates
• 8.7. Locative and existential constructions
• 8.8. Differences in argument type
• 9. Nuclear, core, and extended predication
• 9.0. Introduction
• 9.1. From nuclear to core predication
• 9.2. From core to extended predication
• 10. Perspectivizing the State of Affairs: Subject and Object assignment
• 10.0. Introduction
• 10.1. Some differences with other approaches
• 10.2. The FG interpretation of Subject and Object
• 10.3. Subject/Object vs. semantic and pragmatic functions
• 10.4. Accessibility to Subj/Obj assignment
• 11. Reconsidering the Semantic Function Hierarchy; Raising; Ergativity
• 11.0. Introduction
• 11.1. Subj/Obj assignment and the layering of the clause
• 11.2. Subj/Obj assignment to Loc and Temp
• 11.3. First and second argument as targets for Subj
• 11.4. A multi-factor approach to Subj/Obj assignment
• 11.5. Raising phenomena
• 11.6. Markedness shift
• 12. Predication, proposition, clause
• 12.0. Introduction
• 12.1. States of Affaire and Possible Facts
• 12.2. From predication to proposition
• 12.3. From proposition to clause
• 13. Pragmatic functions
• 13.0. Introduction
• 13.1. Extra-clausal and intra-clausal pragmatic functions
• 13.2. Clause-internal pragmatic functions
• 13.3. Topic and topicality
• 13.4. Focus and focality
• 14. Expression rules
• 14.0. Introduction
• 14.1. Interaction between different types of expression rules
• 14.2. Productivity; rules and regularities
• 14.3. Lexical priority
• 14.4. The representation of non-productive forms
• 14.5. The place of morphology in a Functional Grammar
• 14.6. General format of form-determining expression rules
• 15. The operation of expression rules
• 15.0. Introduction
• 15.1. Expression rules affecting the form of terms
• 15.2. Expression rules affecting the predicate
• 15.3. Agreement at the clause level
• 16. Principles of constituent ordering
• 16.0. Introduction
• 16.1. Some preliminary remarks
• 16.2. Towards a multifunctional theory of constituent ordering
• 16.3. Some auxiliary notions
• 16.4. Constituent ordering principles
• 17. Constituent ordering: problems and complications
• 17.0. Introduction
• 17.1. Object-Subject languages
• 17.2. Special positions
• 17.3. Constituent ordering within term phrases
• 17.4. Displacement phenomena
• 17.5. Interactions between the ordering principles
• 18. Prosodic features
• 18.0. Introduction
• 18.1. Prosodic contours
• 18.2. The functions of prosody
• 18.3. On generating prosodic contours
• References
• Index of languages
• Index of names
• Index of subjects