Structural-functional Studies in English Grammar: In honour of Lachlan Mackenzie (Studies in Language Companion Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027230935 ISBN 13: 9789027230935

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2007

Synopsis

This collection presents a number of studies in the lexico-grammar of English which focus on the one hand on close reading of language in context and on the other hand on current functional theoretical concerns. The various contributions represent distinct functionalist models of language, including Functional Grammar and Functional Discourse Grammar, Systemic-Functional Grammar, Role and Reference Grammar, Cognitive Grammar and Construction Grammar. Taken together, however, they typify current work being conducted from the grammatical perspective within the functionalist enterprise, emphasizing on the relation between structure and usage. A fundamental goal of the enterprise is to identify linguistic structures which are constrained by specific features of use, or which actually encode specific features of use, as many of the contributions here show.

About this edition

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 9027230935
• ISBN 13: 9789027230935
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 393
• Editor: Mike Hannay, Gerard J. Steen