Casebook in functional discourse grammar
The theory of FDG claims that deontic modality can be either participant-oriented or event-oriented, both distinctions forming part of the Representational Level. However, there is evidence from Spanish and a number of other languages that event-oriented deontic modality can be coded twice, with different values in one and the same State-of-Affairs. We will therefore distinguish between objective and subjective deontic modality, where the latter has scope over the former. On the basis of the wa…
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- Full title :Casebook in functional discourse grammar / edited by J. Lachlan Mackenzie, VU University Amsterdam ; Hella Olbertz, University of Amsterdam.
Summary
The theory of FDG claims that deontic modality can be either participant-oriented or event-oriented, both distinctions forming part of the Representational Level. However, there is evidence from Spanish and a number of other languages that event-oriented deontic modality can be coded twice, with different values in one and the same State-of-Affairs. We will therefore distinguish between objective and subjective deontic modality, where the latter has scope over the former. On the basis of the ways in which the expressions of subjective and objective deontic modality interact with tense and othe.
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- Publication Date:2013.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):John Benjamins Pub. Company
- Place of Publication:Amsterdam
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2013.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9789027271587, 9027271585, 1299794750, 9781299794757
- oclc:ocn856628047
- LC Classification:P147
- Dewey Decimal:415
Table of Contents
Casebook in Functional Discourse Grammar; Editorial page ; Title page ; LCC data ; Table of contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; References; A new approach to clausal constituent order; 1. Introduction; 2. Constituent ordering in FDG; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Templates; 2.3 Hierarchical ordering; 2.4 Configurational ordering; 3. Classical constituent order typology; 4. A new approach to constituent order typology; 5. An illustration; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Predicate-medial languages; 5.2.1 Introduction; 5.2.2 Dutch; 5.2.3 English; 5.2.4 Leti; 5.2.5 Summary; 5.3 Predicate-initial languages.
5.3.1 Introduction5.3.2 Scottish Gaelic; 5.3.3 Tzotzil; 5.3.4 Kokota; 5.3.5 Summary; 6. Conclusion; References; Spatial adpositions between lexicon and grammar; 1. Introduction: The adposition ; 2. Spatial adpositions, lexical and grammatical; 3. Justifying the lexical-grammatical distinction for English and other languages; 4. The Complex Locational Expression and the marking of the semantic category location; 5. The major adpositional constructions across the world's languages; 6. Conclusion; References; Conceptual representation and formulation; 1. Introduction.
2. Outline of the Conceptual C…
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