Recently added articles from Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences:
Introduction.(Report)
Jul 01, 2008; Butler, Christopher S. ... This thematic issue focuses on two types of differentiations in linguistic modeling, which play a central role in functional approaches--especially in frameworks that we define as "structural-functional," following Van Valin (1993) and Butler (2003a, 2003b)--and for which we use the term ...
Layering in structural-functional grammars.(Report)
Jul 01, 2008; Butler, Christopher S. ... Abstract This article presents an overview of the notion of layering in three types of structural-functional grammars. Layering is interpreted in a broad sense to refer to two types of linguistic differentiations: (1) on the one hand, a distinction between levels of coding, ...
The status of purpose, reason, and intended endpoint in the typology of complex sentences: implications for layered models of clause structure.(Report)
Jul 01, 2008; Verstraete, Jean-Christophe ... Abstract This study argues that constructions of purpose, reason and intended endpoint have a special status in typologies of complex sentences, because they combine features of the adverbial domain and the complement domain. The feature they share with adverbial clauses is that ...
Descriptive and discourse-referential modifiers in a layered model of the noun phrase.(Report)
Jul 01, 2008; Rijkhoff, Jan ... Abstract This article argues that adnominal modifiers in a layered model of the noun phrase can be divided into two major subcategories: descriptive modifiers and discourse-referential modifiers. Whereas descriptive modifiers can be subdivided into classifying, qualifying, ...
Functional discourse grammar--multifunctional problems and constructional solutions.(Report)
Jul 01, 2008; Anstey, Matthew P. ... Abstract One of Functional Grammar's (FG) most important features is the so-called LAYERED STRUCTURE OF THE CLAUSE (LSC). The LSC is used as both a descriptive and explanatory construct, dividing the linguistic world into various hierarchically related layers, such as predicate, ...
