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Published 2018.
This volume presents a collection of papers using the theory of Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG) to analyse and explain several specific constructions or phenomena (external possessor contractions and binominal constructions, negation, modification, ...
Published 2018.
This volume presents a collection of papers using the theory of Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG) to analyse and explain several specific constructions or phenomena (external possessor contractions and binominal constructions, negation, modification, modality, polysynthetic and transparency) from different perspectives, language-specific, comparative and typological. In addition to applying the theory to the topics in question, these papers aim to contribute to the further development of the theory by modifying and extending it based on new linguistic evidence from a range of languages, thus providing the latest state-of-the-art in FDG. The volume, however, does more than this, as separately and together the papers collected here aim to demonstrate how FDG, with its unique architecture, can provide new insights into a number of issues and phenomena that are currently of interest to theoretical linguists in general.
