Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. The end of the chain: Where does decomposition of lexical knowledge lead us eventually? 11
5. Semantic functions in perspective - reconsidering meaning definitions 41
6. Transitivity and the treatment of (non)prototypicality in Functional Grammar 65
7. A valence based theory of grammatical relations 81
8. The study of ergativity in Functional Grammar 97
9. Object assignment in a Functional Grammar of Croatian revisited 109
10. Perspective, markedness, and paradigmatic relations between predicates. A case study of Danish 127
11. Syntactic functions, topics, and grammatical relations 153
12. Speech acts and information structure in Functional Grammar 183
13. Ancient Greek warfare - A case study in constituent ordering 197
14. Contextualizing constituent as topic, non-sequential background and dramatic pause: Hebrew and Aramaic evidence 215
15. Dutch subordínators and P1 in a Functional Grammar word order template 233
16. From CASE to FOCUS in the pronouns of some Wessex-based dialects of English 255
17. Auxiliary verbs in Arabic 265
18. Term-to-phrase mapping rules: A case study from Arabic 285
19. On the generation of English temporal satellite terms 303
20. Not without you, I won’t: Special utterance types in Functional Grammar 317
21. A functional typology of speech reports 331
22. Computational description of verbal complexes in English and Latin 353
23. Prolog for a functional grammar of Hungarian: A programmer’s look at grammar writing 385
24. Expression rules using f-structures 403
25. Some formal and computational aspects of the Functional Grammar machine model 421
26. Subject index 443