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Discourse, Grammar and Typology

Papers in honor of John W.M. Verhaar
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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 1995

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This volume combines papers selected for their affinity with work on discourse analysis and language typology. The methodological platform is the authors' conviction that all linguistic work needs to be empirical in the sense that (1) generalizations are to be made on the basis of spoken texts in larger contexts, (2) generalizations are correct only as long as pertinent linguistic material does not contradict them, and (3) that linguistic categories and rules are of a temporal nature. In this sense, the contributions represent 'functional typological' comparison, often of languages not frequently investigated. The papers are arranged in 5 groups: Transitivity and voice; Clausal modality; Typology and discourse categories; Language and Culture; Functionality.

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    Prelim pages

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    Table of contents

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    Introduction

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    Curriculum vitae

    xi
    John W.M. Verhaar
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    List of publications

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  • Section I: Transitivity and voice
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    Diathesis

    3
    Werner Abraham
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    How many Transitivisers are in Kope?

    49
    John M. Clifton
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    Complement Clauses versus Relative Clauses

    65
    Bernard Comrie and Kaoru Horie
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    The two Prototypes of Ditransitive Verbs

    77
    Bambang Purwo Kaswanti
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  • Section II: Clausal modality
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    The Assertion of High Subjective Certainty

    103
    Robert J. Conrad and Joshua Lukas
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    On the German werden Future

    119
    Bernd Heine
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    The Category ‘Event’ in Natural Discourse and Logic

    139
    Paul J. Hopper
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  • Section III: Typology and discourse categories
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    The Category ‘S’ in English Conversation

    153
    Barbara A. Fox
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    A Semantic Basis for Grammatical Typology

    179
    Anna Wierzbicka
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  • Section IV: Language and culture
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    Grammatical Signs of the Divided Self

    213
    John Haiman
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    Language and Culture of Inner Asia's Borderland

    235
    Charles N. Li
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  • Section V: Functionality
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    Multifunctionality and the Realization Problem in Modelling Discourse Production

    247
    Susanna Cumming
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    Towards an Understanding of Linguistic Evolution and the Notion ‘X has a Function Y’

    275
    Mark Durie
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    “Lice he no good”

    309
    Suzanne Romaine
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    Form and Meaning in Morphology

    319
    Wiecher Zwanenburg
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    Subject Index

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    List of contributors and their academic affiliations

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Studies in Language Companion Series
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.27
eBook ISBN: 9789027285737
Keywords for this book
Discourse studies; Typology; Functional linguistics; Pragmatics
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Professional and scholarly;
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