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Butler, Christopher S. – Language Sciences, 2012
The aim of this paper is to compare the treatment of syntactic functions, and more particularly those traditionally labelled as Subject and Object, in Functional Discourse Grammar and Role and Reference Grammar. Relevant aspects of the overall structure of the two theories are briefly described. The concept of alignment between levels of the…
Descriptors: Semantics, Syntax, Grammar, Structural Analysis (Linguistics)
Hinzen, Wolfram – Language Sciences, 2012
Throughout its long history, the project of a science of grammar has always been an inherently philosophical one, in which the study of grammar was taken to have special epistemological significance. I ask why 20th and 21st century inquiry into Universal Grammar (UG) has largely lost this dimension, a fact that I argue is partially responsible for…
Descriptors: Semantics, Grammar, Linguistics, Philosophy
Keizer, Evelien – Language Sciences, 2012
The aim of this paper is to challenge the generally accepted claim in descriptive and theoretical linguistics that English anaphoric proforms replace constituents (semantic or syntactic units) in underlying representation. On the basis of authentic examples, it is shown that the anaphoric use of the predicative proforms "one" and "do so", the…
Descriptors: Semantics, Grammar, English, Syntax
Velasco, Daniel Garcia; Hengeveld, Kees; Mackenzie, J. Lachlan – Language Sciences, 2012
This epilogue addresses the most important topics and challenges for the Morphosyntactic Level in Functional Discourse Grammar that have been raised in the articles in this Special Issue. We begin by exploring the differences between the Morphosyntactic Level in FDG and the treatment of morphosyntactic phenomena in other linguistic frameworks. We…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Linguistic Theory, Grammar, Uncommonly Taught Languages
Connolly, John H. – Language Sciences, 2012
An essential task for the morphosyntactic level within the grammatical component of Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG) is the handling of constituent ordering. This area of grammar, which is known as positional syntax, constitutes the subject of the present paper, in which the ordering of constituents is examined within the framework of a dynamic…
Descriptors: Syntax, Grammar, Structural Analysis (Linguistics), Linguistic Theory
Koo, Hahn; Oh, Young-il – Language Sciences, 2013
Some of recently proposed phonotactic learners are tier-based bigram learners that restrict their hypothesis space to patterns between two segments that are adjacent at the tier level. This assumption is understandable considering that typologically frequent nonadjacent sound patterns are predominantly those that hold between two tier-adjacent…
Descriptors: Grammar, Classification, Acoustics, Phonology
Van de Velde, Freek – Language Sciences, 2012
This article inquires into the nature of "attributive" prepositional phrases from a Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG) perspective. On the basis of the observation that such prepositional phrases can easily be separated from their host noun phrases by extraposition or extraction, it is argued that they do not belong to the noun phrase…
Descriptors: Semantics, Phrase Structure, Nouns, Grammar
Mackenzie, J. Lachlan – Language Sciences, 2012
Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG), as a theory of the organization of natural languages, seeks to attain pragmatic, typological and cognitive adequacy. The attempt to achieve cognitive adequacy has been fraught with problems stemming from the vagueness of the concept and the difficulty of adapting to trends in psycholinguistics. Specifically,…
Descriptors: Priming, Psycholinguistics, Cognitive Psychology, Linguistic Theory
Hengeveld, Kees – Language Sciences, 2012
It follows from the ordering principles that are applied in Functional Discourse Grammar that the positional possibilities of markers of agreement and those of cross-reference are different. Markers of cross reference are predicted to occur closer to the verb stem, while markers of agreement would occupy peripheral positions. This paper tests…
Descriptors: Nouns, Prediction, Grammar, Discourse Analysis
Trousdale, Graeme; Norde, Muriel – Language Sciences, 2013
Degrammaticalization has been characterized as a composite change involving gains in morphosyntactic autonomy or phonetic and/or semantic substance. Such a definition is suggestive of a change (or set of changes) which may profitably be explored from a construction grammar perspective. In this article, we consider two cases of…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Grammar, Semantics, Case Studies
Cornish, Francis – Language Sciences, 2013
The Functional Discourse Grammar model has a twofold objective: on the one hand, to provide a descriptively, psychologically and pragmatically adequate account of the forms made available by a typologically diverse range of languages; and on the other, to provide a model of language which is set up to reflect, at one remove, certain of the stages…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Grammar, Models, Language Usage
Butler, Christopher S. – Language Sciences, 2008
This paper discusses the role played by cognition in three linguistic theories which may be labelled as "structural-functional": Functional (Discourse) Grammar, Role and Reference Grammar and Systemic Functional Grammar. It argues that if we are to achieve true cognitive adequacy, we must go well beyond the grammar itself to include the processes…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics, Neurology, Cognitive Psychology
Alderete, John; Tupper, Paul; Frisch, Stefan A. – Language Sciences, 2013
A significant problem in computational language learning is that of inferring the content of well-formedness constraints from input data. In this article, we approach the constraint induction problem as the gradual adjustment of subsymbolic constraints in a connectionist network. In particular, we develop a multi-layer feed-forward network that…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Logical Thinking, Semitic Languages, Statistical Analysis
Backus, Ad; Dogruöz, A. Seza; Heine, Bernd – Language Sciences, 2011
Contact between languages often leads to linguistic changes. Although the social factors and the typological characteristics of the languages influence the change process, the interaction between these factors is not well-known. This is partially due to the fact that the long-term and short-term effects of language contact are rarely brought…
Descriptors: Linguistic Borrowing, Grammar, Social Influences, Language Classification
Gonzalvez-Garcia, Francisco – Language Sciences, 2009
Drawing on naturally-occurring data extracted from the British National Corpus (BNC) and the Corpus de Referencia del Espanol Actual (CREA) in conjunction with data elicited from native speakers by means of questionnaires, this paper provides a bottom-up, usage-based analysis of instances of depictive secondary predicates involving mainly verba…
Descriptors: English, Spanish, Computational Linguistics, Semantics