Working with Functional Grammar

Descriptive and Computational Applications

Mike Hannay, Elseline Vester, Mike Hannay, Elseline Vester

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9783110131451
• eBook ISBN: 9783110859904
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Grammar & Punctuation
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

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Table of contents

• FOREWORD
• LIST OF ABBREVIATTONS
• THE SOURCE OF THE DATIVE PERSPECTIVE IN POLISH PSEUDO-REFLEXIVES
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The structures to be considered
• 3. Dative experiencers vs transitive agents
• 4. Pseudo-reflexives
• 5. The possessive dative
• 6. The source of the dative in inchoative-like structures
• 7. Conclusion
• BULGARIAN SE-CONSTRUCTIONS
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Types of se-construction in Bulgarian
• 3. Valency reduction in FG
• 4. An argument-reduction approach to se-constructions
• 5. Conclusion
• IMPERSONAL CONSTRUCTIONS IN SPANISH
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Non-specific agent predications
• 3. Se -constructions
• 4. Conclusion
• PREDICATE FORMATION IN BANTAWA
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Benefactive in Bantawa
• 3. Causative in Bantawa
• 4. Progressive and perfective aspect in Bantawa
• 5. Conclusion
• RESTRICTIVE RELATIVES IN ARABIC: A FUNCTIONAL APPROACH
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The facts
• 3. Restrictive relative formation
• 4. Conclusion
• ON THE SUBJECTHOOD OF EXISTENTIAL THERE
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Coding and behavioural properties of the existential there
• 3. Raising out of existential constructions
• 4. An extension of the no-subject-assignment issue
• 5. Conclusion
• SEMANTIC FUNCTIONS AND SUBJECT ASSIGNMENT REVISITED. EVIDENCE FROM CLASSICAL SANSKRIT
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Theoretical preliminaries for handling the Sanskrit data
• 3. The Sanskrit verbal system
• 4. The corpus
• 5. Analysis of the corpus
• 6. An alternative analysis
• 7. Conclusion
• THE SATELLITE STATUS OF GERUND AND GERUNDIVE IN LATIN
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The layered sentence model
• 3. The use of gerund and gerundive
• 4. Gerund and gerundive as satellites
• 5. Conclusion
• GETTING AHEAD WITH PREDICATIONAL TERMS, NOUN PREDICATION TERMS, AND DOMINANT PARTICIPLES
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The basic idea
• 3. Predicational terms
• 4. Noun predication terms
• 5. Dominant participle terms
• 6. A typology of terms
• LET’S GET OUR HEADS TOGETHER: A REPLY TO VAN DER AUWERA
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Dominant-participle constructions
• 3. Heads
• 4. Nominalizations
• 5. ‘Noun predication terms’
• 6. Conclusion
• REFERENTIALITY AND THE REPRESENTATION OF PREDICATE NOMINALS
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Dik’s treatment of non-verbal predicates
• 3. Referential and non-referential nominal predicates
• 4. (Non-)referentiality and (in)definiteness
• 5. A typology of copular sentence types
• 6. The representation of classifying and identifying constructions
• 7. Conclusion
• MENTAL PROCESSES AND RELATIONAL VERBS AND THE TYPOLOGY OF STATES OF AFFAIRS IN FG
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Mental, relational and existential processes
• 3. Observations and questions
• 4. Experiences in FG
• 5. Relational verbs in FG
• 6. Conclusion
• MORPHOLOGY AND THE TYPOLOGY OF EXPRESSION RULES
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Trigger versus placement rules
• 3. Triggers
• 4. Primary and secondary triggers
• 5. Ordering
• 6. Morphology
• 7. Conclusion
• HOW TO BUILD A NATURAL LANGUAGE USER
• 1. Introduction
• 2. One cognitive language?
• 3. Some relevant properties of Functional Grammar
• 4. Knowledge representation
• 5. Logic
• 6. Translation
• 7. Results obtained so far
• FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR AS A UNIFICATION GRAMMAR: IS IT A WORTHWHILE INVESTIGATION?
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The unification formalism
• 3. Towards a unification grammar realization of FG
• 4. Results and code
• 5. Conclusion
• A FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR MACHINE
• 1. Introduction
• 2. An overview of FGM
• 3. Underlying representations
• 4. Expression rules
• 5. The lexicon
• 6. Procedural aspects: sentence generation
• 7. Final remarks
• REFERENCES
• AUTHOR INDEX
• SUBJECT INDEX