Language Typology: A Functional PerspectiveAlice Caffarel, J. R. Martin, Christian M. I. M. Matthiessen John Benjamins Publishing, 2004 - 700 pages This book is intended as a systemic functional contribution to language typology both for those who would like to understand and describe particular languages against the background of generalizations about a wide range of languages and also for those who would like to develop typological accounts that are based on and embody descriptions of the systems of particular languages (rather than isolated constructions). The book is a unique contribution in at least two respects. On the one hand, it is the first book based on systemic functional theory that is specifically concerned with language typology. On the other hand, the book combines the particular with the general in the description of languages: it presents comparable sketches of particular languages while at the same time identifying generalizations based on the languages described here as well as on other languages. The volume explores eight languages, covering seven language families: French, German, Pitjantjatjara, Tagalog, Telugu, Vietnamese, Chinese, and Japanese. |
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CHAPTER 8 | 433 |
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Actor Process Adjunct adpositions adverbial affixes aspect Attribute Carrier Chinese circumstances circumstantial clausal clause rank cline clitic Complement construed context contrast coverb dative declarative discourse distinction domain English ergative example existential existential clauses experiential Finite Finite/Predicator focus French German Goal grammar Halliday hypotactic ideational identifying imperative imperative mood indicative interpersonal interpreted interrogative interrogative mood intonation Japanese languages lexical lexicogrammatical Linguistics marked marker Martin material processes Matthiessen meaning Medium mental processes metafunction Michel Zevaco modal Mood element morpheme negative Negotiator nominal group noun options participant particle patterns Phenomenon phonological phrase Pitjantjatjara polarity position Predicator Proc process types prominence pronominal pronouns prosody realized role s/he Sayer Section semantic semiotic Senser sequence siya speaker structure Subject systemic functional Systemic Functional Grammar Table Tagalog Telugu tense Teruya thematic Theme Rheme theory tone topical Theme transitivity typological unmarked Theme variation verb verbal group Vietnamese volume word
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Page 12 - 'meanings' [are] determined by inter-relations of the forms in the grammatical systems set up for the language. A nominative in a four case system would in this sense necessarily have a different 'meaning' from a nominative in a two case or a fourteen case system, for example.
Page 41 - Having made the first abstraction by suitably isolating a piece of 'text' or part of the social process of speaking for a listener or of writing for a reader, the suggested procedure for dealing with meaning is its dispersion into modes, rather like the dispersion of light of mixed wave-lengths into a spectrum.
Page 63 - ... how the language works". This presupposes a general description of those patterns which the linguist considers to be primary in the language, a description which is then variably extendable, on the "scale of delicacy", in depth of detail. It involves a characterization of the special features, including statistical properties, of varieties of the language used for different purposes ("registers"), and the comparison of individual texts, spoken and written, including literary texts. This in turn...
Page 106 - ... perfective looks at the situation from outside, without necessarily distinguishing any of the internal structure of the situation, whereas the imperfective looks at the situation from inside, and as such is crucially concerned with the internal structure of the situation, since it can both look backwards towards the start of the situation, and look forwards to the end of the situation...
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Working with Discourse: Meaning Beyond the Clause J. R. Martin,David Rose Aucun aperçu disponible - 2003 |
Informations bibliographiques
| Titre | Language Typology: A Functional Perspective Volume 253 de Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science: Current issues in linguistic theory Volume 253 de Current Issues in Linguistic Theory Series Language Typology: A Functional Perspective |
| Rédacteurs | Alice Caffarel, J. R. Martin, Christian M. I. M. Matthiessen |
| Édition | illustrée |
| Éditeur | John Benjamins Publishing, 2004 |
| ISBN | 1588115593, 9781588115591 |
| Longueur | 700 pages |
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