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Chapter 10. Enation and agnation in multi-level models

The case for Functional Discourse Grammar

Abstract

Gleason’s (1965) distinction between enation (same structure, different lexemes) and agnation (different structure, same lexemes) has proved to be a crucial one for theoretical linguistics, and over the last decades functional and cognitive linguists have made important contributions to the study of (in particular) agnate relations. Nevertheless, several issues have not yet been sufficiently investigated, including the identification of less obvious agnate relations; the exact characterization of identical, similar or overlapping relations at different levels of linguistic analysis; and the role of different kinds of function words in distinguishing between enation and agnation. In this paper I argue that the distinctive features of Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG) make this theory ideally suited to address these issues.

Abstract

Gleason’s (1965) distinction between enation (same structure, different lexemes) and agnation (different structure, same lexemes) has proved to be a crucial one for theoretical linguistics, and over the last decades functional and cognitive linguists have made important contributions to the study of (in particular) agnate relations. Nevertheless, several issues have not yet been sufficiently investigated, including the identification of less obvious agnate relations; the exact characterization of identical, similar or overlapping relations at different levels of linguistic analysis; and the role of different kinds of function words in distinguishing between enation and agnation. In this paper I argue that the distinctive features of Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG) make this theory ideally suited to address these issues.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. General acknowledgments vii
  4. Introduction. Reconnecting form and meaning 1
  5. Section 1. Information structure
  6. Chapter 1. On the use of there -clefts with zero subject relativizer 17
  7. Chapter 2. Impersonal passives in English and Norwegian 45
  8. Chapter 3. Atopicality as the unmarked logical structure in Scottish Gaelic 71
  9. Section 2. Usage-based approaches to grammar and the lexicon
  10. Chapter 4. On the rise of a marker of disaffiliation from Others’ discourse 99
  11. Chapter 5. Towards a radically usage-based account of constructional attrition 123
  12. Chapter 6. The compound pronouns someone / somebody and everyone / everybody in present-day spoken English 145
  13. Section 3. Theoretical issues in functional linguistics
  14. Chapter 7. Iconicity in spatial deixis 185
  15. Chapter 8. A cognitive-functional approach to watch as a verb of perception 209
  16. Chapter 9. Zero-marking or nothing to mark? 237
  17. Chapter 10. Enation and agnation in multi-level models 267
  18. Author index 299
  19. Language index 301
  20. Subject index 303
Reconnecting Form and Meaning
This chapter is in the book Reconnecting Form and Meaning
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.230.10kei

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. General acknowledgments vii
  4. Introduction. Reconnecting form and meaning 1
  5. Section 1. Information structure
  6. Chapter 1. On the use of there -clefts with zero subject relativizer 17
  7. Chapter 2. Impersonal passives in English and Norwegian 45
  8. Chapter 3. Atopicality as the unmarked logical structure in Scottish Gaelic 71
  9. Section 2. Usage-based approaches to grammar and the lexicon
  10. Chapter 4. On the rise of a marker of disaffiliation from Others’ discourse 99
  11. Chapter 5. Towards a radically usage-based account of constructional attrition 123
  12. Chapter 6. The compound pronouns someone / somebody and everyone / everybody in present-day spoken English 145
  13. Section 3. Theoretical issues in functional linguistics
  14. Chapter 7. Iconicity in spatial deixis 185
  15. Chapter 8. A cognitive-functional approach to watch as a verb of perception 209
  16. Chapter 9. Zero-marking or nothing to mark? 237
  17. Chapter 10. Enation and agnation in multi-level models 267
  18. Author index 299
  19. Language index 301
  20. Subject index 303
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