A Cognitive Functional Approach To Nominalization In English
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Author | : Liesbet Heyvaert |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2015-06-03 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110903709 |
The book presents a systematic theoretical account of the fundamental constructional mechanisms that underlie deverbal nominalization in general, and it makes an original descriptive contribution by discussing a number of nominalization systems in detail. The main theoretical motif is that nominalization strongly calls for a functional rather than purely structural approach. The book goes more deeply into a number of functional constructs needed to model nominalization (drawn from Cognitive Grammar and Systemic-Functional Grammar) and it elaborates on the internal functional organization of nominal and clausal structure [e.g. the notions of type specification, instantiation and grounding (Langacker 1991) are discussed in detail and shown to be crucial for the analysis of deverbal nominalization]. It is argued that deverbal nominalizations are basically re-classifications of verbal predicates into nominal constructions. This re-classification either applies at word rank or it involves the rank shift (Halliday 1966) of a clause-like unit, with its internal structure preserved (e.g. signing the contract quickly). The re-classified unit then adopts a specific nominal strategy, with some form of nominal determination and quantification (e.g. her signing the contract quickly). The descriptive part of the book zooms in on nominalizations that are derived at word rank (deverbal -er nominals) and on nominalizations applying to 'a temporal clausal heads' (e.g. John's playing the piano) and finite clauses. Of the gerundive and finite types of nominalization, those that function in factive contexts are focused on. In the analysis of deverbal -er nominals a case is made for a 'subject' analysis of the system and an elaborate discussion of the clausal middle construction (e.g. this book reads easily) - which is argued to show systematic resemblances with non-agentive -er nominals - is included. Of the remaining nominalization types (John's playing the piano; playing the piano; the fact that he plays the piano; that he plays the piano ), especially the nominal behaviour (e.g. proper name vs. common noun strategy) and (in the case of gerundive nominals) the various structural and semantic subtypes that can be distinguished among them are discussed.
Author | : Lamprini Kosma |
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Total Pages | : 96 |
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Author | : Elnora ten Wolde |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2023-05-31 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1108830951 |
Taking a multi-theoretical approach, this book offers the first in-depth study of the function and development of evaluative of-binomials.
Author | : A. M. Simon-Vandenbergen |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 461 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 902724748X |
Since the 1980s, metaphor has received much attention in linguistics in general. Within Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) the area of 'grammatical metaphor' has become increasingly more important. This volume aims to raise and debate problematic issues in the study of lexico-grammatical metaphor, and to foreground the potential of further study in the field. There is a need to highlight the SFL perspective on metaphor; other traditions focus on lexical aspects, and from cognitive perspectives, while SFL focuses on the grammatical dimension, and socio-functional aspects in the explanation of this phenomenon.
Author | : Bingjun Yang |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 395 |
Release | : 2020-06-23 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9811547718 |
This edited volume gathers corpus-based studies on topics including English grammar and discourses on media and health, mainly from a systemic functional linguistics (SFL) perspective, in order to reveal the potential of SFL, which has been emphasized by Halliday. Various other perspectives, such as philosophy, statistics, genre studies, etc. are also included to promote SFL’s potential interaction with other theories. Though they employ a diverse range of theoretical perspectives, all the chapters focus on exploring language in use with the corpus method. The studies collected here are all original, unpublished research articles that address significant questions, deepen readers’ understanding of SFL, and promote its potential interaction with other theories. In addition, they demonstrate the great potential that SFL holds for solving language-related questions in a variety of discourses.
Author | : S. Starc |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2015-05-05 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 113747730X |
Meaning Making in Text presents new insights into forms of communication in a range of contexts: cultural, linguistic, multimodal and educational. The thirteen chapters are all linked theoretically by advances in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL).
Author | : Kaoru Horie |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027238863 |
Complementation, i.e. predication encoded in argument slots, is well-renowned for its syntactic and semantic variability across languages. As such, it poses a tantalizing descriptive/explanatory challenge to linguists of any theoretical persuasion. Recent developments in Cognitive and Functional-typological linguistics have enabled researchers to address various unexplored research questions on complementation phenomena. The seven papers included in this volume represent the most recent endeavors to explore cognitive-functional foundations of complementation phenomena from various theoretical perspectives (Cognitive Grammar, Mental Space Theory, Typology, Discourse-functional linguistics, Cognitive Science). The seven papers are prefaced by an introductory chapter (Kaoru Horie and Bernard Comrie) which situates the current volume within the major complementation studies of the past forty years. This work presents a new theoretical venue of complementation studies and enhances our understanding of this complex yet intriguing syntactic and semantic phenomenon.
Author | : Søren Kelstrup |
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Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2000 |
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Total Pages | : 1060 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Language and languages |
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Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Linguistics |
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