Subextraction at the Discourse-Grammar interface

2017 ◽  
pp. 224-254
Author(s):  
Mara Frascarelli ◽  
Ángel L. Jiménez-Fernández
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Grammar

scholarly journals Modularity and derivation in Functional Discourse Grammar

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Daniel GARCÍA VELASCO
Keyword(s):  
Central Issue ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
External Constraints ◽  
Language Structure ◽  
Maximal Depth ◽  
Linguistic Representations ◽  
Discourse Grammar ◽  
Theory Of Language ◽  
Different Levels

ABSTRACT Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG) is a typologically-based theory of language structure which is organized in levels, layers and components. In this paper, I will claim that FDG is modular in Sadock’s sense, as it presents four independent levels of representation with their own linguistic primitives each. For modular grammars, the relation between the different levels (more technically, the nature of the interfaces) is a central issue. It will be shown that FDG is a top-down grammar which follows two basic principles in its dynamic implementation: Depth-first and Maximal depth. Together with external constraints, these principles conspire to create linguistic representations which are psychologically adequate and which allow levels to be circumvented if necessary, thus simplifying representations and creating mismatches among them.

scholarly journals Call for papers: NJL Special Issue on Discourse, Grammar and Intersubjectivity: Nordic Perspectives

2015 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-4
Author(s):  
Marja Etelämäki ◽  
Ilona Herlin
Keyword(s):  
Special Issue ◽  
Discourse Grammar

The second issue of Volume 39 (autumn 2016) of the Nordic Journal of Linguistics will be a special issue devoted to discourse, grammar and intersubjectivity. This issue will be edited by Marja Etelämäki, Ilona Herlin, Tapani Möttönen and Laura Visapää.

scholarly journals Grammar and context in Functional Discourse Grammar

Pragmatics ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kees Hengeveld ◽  
J. Lachlan Mackenzie
Keyword(s):  
Contextual Information ◽  
Guiding Principle ◽  
Exchange Of Information ◽  
Direct Exchange ◽  
Proper Functioning ◽  
European Portuguese ◽  
Linguistic Representations ◽  
Discourse Grammar

This article presents a proposal for the organization of the Contextual Component in Functional Discourse Grammar. A guiding principle in this proposal is that, given the fact that Functional Discourse Grammar is a theory of grammar, the Contextual Component should provide the information that is necessary for a proper functioning of the grammar rather than aim at an exhaustive specification of all the information that plays a role in interpreting linguistic expressions. The Contextual Component contains situational and discursive information and is organized in different strata that correspond to the interpersonal, representational, morphosyntactic, and phonological levels of representation within the grammar. The contextual representations make use of the same formalizations as the corresponding linguistic representations, thus allowing for direct exchange of information between the Grammatical and the Contextual Components. Thus exchange of information is handled by an interface called the contextualizer. The article illustrates the functioning of this model by analyzing the role of contextual information with respect to three grammatical phenomena in three different languages: Unexpressed arguments in Turkish, English too, and answers to yes/no questions in European Portuguese.

De semantische categorie Tijd in Functional Discourse Grammar:

2014 ◽  
pp. 143-162
Author(s):  
Wim Honselaar ◽  
Evelien Keizer
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Grammar
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