By way of introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. By way of introduction ix
4. I. ‘Functional liguistics of Prague’ and other functional approaches
5. On Prague school functionalism in linguistics 3
6. M.A.K. Halliday’s functional grammar and the Prague school 39
7. Some principles of functional grammar 81
8. S.C. Dik’s functional grammar 101
9. II. The theme-rheme (tpoic-comment) issue in the Praguian tradition
10. On the delimitation of the theme in functional sentence perspective 137
11. Constitutive, informative and transformative models in modern English texts and sentences 157
12. Prague functionalism an topic vs. focus 169
13. Functional sentence perspective and intensional logic 191
14. A functionalist approach to the acquisition of grammar 209
15. Functional sentence perspective in discourse and language acquisition 265
16. Processing strategies 297
17. IV. Functionalism in general linguistics
18. The overestimation of functionalism 311
19. Function and structure in linguistic descriptions 333
20. Communication and expressivity 357
21. Functions of intonation 381
22. Written language seen from the functionalist angle 395
23. V. Functionalism in linguistic description
24. Word-formation and poetic language 409
25. On acceptable violations of parallelism constraints 425
26. A case of syntactic mimicry 459
27. Functionalism in contrastive analysis and translation studies 471
28. Index 483