Most Recent Articles from Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences

• Introduction 

  This thematic issue focuses on two types of differentiations in linguistic modeling, which play a central role in functional approaches--especially...

  07/01/08 by Christopher S. Butler; Miriam Taverniers · More from publication

• Functional discourse grammar—multifunctional problems and constructional solutions 

  Abstract Abstract One of Functional Grammar's (FG) most important features is the so-called LAYERED STRUCTURE OF THE CLAUSE (LSC). The LSC is...

  07/01/08 by Matthew P. Anstey · More from publication

• The status of purpose, reason, and intended endpoint in the typology of complex sentences: implications for layered models of clause structure 

  Abstract Abstract This study argues that constructions of purpose, reason and intended endpoint have a special status in typologies of complex...

  07/01/08 by Jean-Christophe Verstraete · More from publication

• Layering in structural-functional grammars 

  Abstract Abstract This article presents an overview of the notion of layering in three types of structural-functional grammars. Layering is...

  07/01/08 by Christopher S. Butler; Miriam Taverniers · More from publication

• Descriptive and discourse-referential modifiers in a layered model of the noun phrase 

  Abstract This article argues that adnominal modifiers in a layered model of the noun phrase can be divided into two major subcategories:...

  07/01/08 by Jan Rijkhoff · More from publication

• The semantics of particles: advantages of a contrastive and panchronic approach: a study of the polysemy of French deja and Italian gia 

  Abstract Abstract In this article, we propose a contrastive, panchronic method of semantic-pragmatic analysis, which we find particularly...

  05/01/08 by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen · More from publication

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