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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- List of abbreviations and symbols -- Introductory survey -- Chapter 1. Basic principles of functional grammar -- Predicate typology -- Chapter 2. Nominal predicates in a functional grammar of English -- Possessive constructions -- Chapter 3 Genitive and dative possessors in Latin -- Chapter 4 On non-verbal predicates in functional grammar: the case of possessives in Hungarian -- Chapter 5 Possessive constructions in French -- Semantic and syntactic functions -- Chapter 6 Alpha vs non-alpha: some observations on the position of semantic functions on the SFH -- Chapter 7 Three passive-like constructions in Indonesian -- Chapter 8 Between object and oblique: in defence of secondary object -- Chapter 9 Impersonal constructions in functional grammar -- Pragmatic Functions -- Chapter 10 The focus function in functional grammar: questions of contrast and context -- Chapter 11 On subordination in Usan and other Papuan languages -- Principles of constituent ordering -- Chapter 12 Placement rules and syntactic templates -- Chapter 13 Two constraints on relators and what they can do for us -- The historical dimension -- Chapter 14 Historical functional grammar: an outline of an integrated theory of language change -- The psychological dimension -- Chapter 15 Pragmatic constraints on subject and agent selection -- Chapter 16 The relationship between formal and content properties of speech: Differences between first and second language learners -- Wider perspectives -- Chapter 17 On the methodology of a functional language theory -- Chapter 18 Towards an integrated model of a functional grammar -- Author index -- Language index -- Subject index
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- List of contributors -- Surface structure effects on the accentuation of verbs in read aloud text -- A case of restructuring -- Final devoicing, assimilation, and subject clitics in Dutch -- On the development of Dutch negation -- On VI, GB and INFL -- Formal semantics: a lexical semantic approach -- The verbal specifier in Dutch -- Typology of states of affairs -- Die and dat in West-Flemish relative clauses -- The distribution of sentential complements -- Numerals as determiners -- The problem of the passive in constructions of perception and cognition in modern Hebrew -- On the similarity of quantification and focus -- Morphological alternations and phonological rules: the case of Dutch intervocalic fricatives -- Clivage dans la grammaire: la syntaxe de ce -f être + qui/ que -- The parameter preposition/postposition in word order typology -- How to derive multiple questions? -- Tense theory and the relation between futurity and non-finiteness in English -- Model verbs, L-tous and the Binding Theory -- Comrie on subjects
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- List of abbreviations and symbols -- 1. Preliminaries -- 2. Outline of Functional Grammar -- 3. Predicates, predicate-frames, and predications -- 4. On the function and structure of terms -- 5. Subject and Object Assignment -- 6. Pragmatic functions -- 7. Expression rules: case marking -- 8. The order of constituents -- 9. A language-independent preferred order of constituents -- 10. Epilogue -- References -- Index of subjects -- Index of languages -- Index of names
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Parametric Change: Empty Subjects in Old French -- Restructured Compounds and Romance Causatives -- En-Chain -- Problems with Past Participles Agreement in French and Italian Dialects -- Consonant Strength in the Romance Dialects of the Pyrenees -- The Case for a Syntax-dependent Postlexical Module in Spanish Phonology -- The Middle and the Pseudo-Middle in French -- ECP Effects at LF in Spanish -- El acent? dislocad? - pues cantad? - castellan?: On Explaining Stress-Shift in Song-Texts from Spanish (and Certain Other Romance Languages) -- First-Person Singular Inversion in French -- Transitive, Intransitive and Reflexive Uses of Adjectival Verbs in French -- Morphological Constraints on Epenthesis and Adjunction: Paradigmatic or Cyclic? -- Clitic Movement in Spanish and the Projection Principle -- Past Participle Agreement in French: Agreement = Case -- Constraints on Rime-internal Syllabification in French: Eliminating Truncation Rules -- Variable Deletion of que in the spoken French of Ottawa-Hull -- On Predication and Identity within NP's -- Structure-preserving Properties of an Epenthetic Rule in Spanish -- Resetting the Parameters: Acquiring Spanish as L2 -- Clitic-Chains and the Definiteness Requirement in Doubling Constructions -- Gemination and the Proto-Romance Syllable Shift -- Quantifiers and Direct Object-Doubling -- Implicit Arguments and Control in Middles and Passives
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Table of contents -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The psychological reality of grammars -- Chapter 3. The child's acquisition of the optimal grammar -- Chapter 4. Stages of acquisition -- Chapter 5. Principles of grammar and acquisition -- Chapter 6. The importance of data -- Chapter 7. Acquisition and markedness -- Chapter 8. Conclusion: The interaction of grammatical theory and acquisition -- References
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part I. Theoretical background -- Chapter 2. Introduction to the basic claims: English -- Chapter 3. Metrical phonology and the analysis of rhythmic adjustments in English. An overview of the literature -- Part II. Rhythmic Adjustment in Dutch -- Chapter 4. Some formal properties of Dutch words, compounds and phrases -- Chapter 5. Rhythmic phenomena in Dutch nominal phrases: left-directional rhythmic adjustments -- Chapter 6. Rhythmic phenomena in Dutch nominal compounds: right-directional rhythmic adjustments -- Part III. Analysis -- Chapter 7. Interactions and rule ordering. Structural conditions -- Chapter 8. Dependency and the notion DTEw -- Appendix I. Some comments on compounds and phrases -- Appendix II. Translation of Dutch examples -- References
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Chapter 1: The Relation Grammar-Parser -- Chapter 2: Explaining Subjacency: An Overview -- Chapter 3: Grammatical Constraints and Determinism -- Chapter 4: Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index
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