Structure, meaning and use

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction vii
4. Part I: Reconnecting language
5. Linguistics as metaphor 3
6. Language as a faculty, languages as ‘contingent’ manifestations and humans as function builders 29
7. Linguistics — systemic and functional 49
8. Part II: Dependency
9. Structure, meaning and use 73
10. Control in constrained dependency grammar 99
11. Part III: Cross-linguistic morphosyntax
12. Grammatical structures in noun incorporation 141
13. The formal realization of case and agreement marking 181
14. Part IV: Case and semantic roles in discourse
15. Functions of case-marking vs. non-marking in Finnish discourse 213
16. The interaction of Russian word order, agreement and case marking 227
17. Models of transitivity in French 249
18. Mental process clauses in Japanese 297
19. Index 329
20. List of contributors 337