By Ruqaiya Hasan †, Carmel Cloran, David G. Butt
ISBN-10: 9027236240
ISBN-13: 9789027236241
This quantity specializes in the relation among conception and outline by way of analyzing elements of transitivity in several languages. Transitivity — or case grammar, to take advantage of the preferred time period — has constantly occupied a centre-stage place in linguistics, now not least as a result of its supposedly privileged relation to states of affairs within the genuine international. utilizing a systemic useful standpoint, the 10 papers during this quantity make contributions to this scholarship by way of concentrating on the transitivity styles in language because the expression of the experiential metafunction. via a research of alternative languages — English, Dutch, German, Finnish, chinese language and Pitjantjatjara — the members offer useful descriptions of many of the different types of method, their contributors and conditions, together with phenomena equivalent to di-transitivity, causativity, the get-passive, and so on. With the relation among theories and outlines working during the ten chapters of this quantity as occasionally an overt and infrequently a covert topic, the chapters element to the character of the linguistic truth that's associated ineluctably at the one hand to the character of the speculation and at the different to the audio system’ adventure of the realm within which they live.
The majority of papers integrated within the quantity derive from the nineteenth overseas Systemic practical Congress at Macquarie University.
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If we pick up a book purporting to describe a language, or to help us to learn it, we expect to find some portion or portions of the book — but not the whole of the book — devoted to grammar. In my own work, I have operated with the concept of "lexicogrammar" (that is, grammar and vocabulary as a single unity), while usually referring to it simply as grammar for short; this is a stratal concept, with grammar as one among an ordered series comprising (at least) semantics / lexicogrammar / phonology.
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