RECONNECTING LANGUAGE MORPHOLOGY AND SYNTAX IN FUNCTIONAL PERSPECTIVES -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Reconnecting language -- Linguistics as metaphor -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Language as meaning potential -- 3. Five critical features -- 3.1.Comprehensive -- 3.2. Extravagant -- 3.3. Indeterminate -- 3.4. Non-autonomous -- 3.5. Variable -- 4. Language as a constraining force -- 5. Linguistics as metaphor -- Notes -- References -- Language as a faculty, languages as 'contingent' manifestations and humans as function builders -- 1. Introduction -- 2.The faculté de langage and human languages -- 3. Reassessing the place of syntax in linguistic theory -- 4. Grammaticalization and its interpretation -- 5. Humans as partly conscious language builders -- 5.1. Constraints on LEs -- 5.2. LEs' freedom and consciousness -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Linguistics - systemic and functional Renewing the 'warrant' -- 1. Disconnecting 'language': a technical fiction? -- 2. Fieldwork versus homework -- 3. Testing the hypothesis: is language a uniform stable system? -- 4. The functional alternative -- 5. Renewing the 'warrant' for systemic functional linguistics -- 6. The case rests -- References -- Part II. Dependency -- Structure, meaning and use -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Structure -- 2.1. Elementary and complex units in the system of language -- 2.2. Functional background of dependency syntax -- 2.3. Valency as the core of syntax -- 2.4. Dependency trees -- 2.5. The position of coordination and further relations -- 3. Meaning -- 3.1. The layers of meaning -- 3.2. Topic-focus articulation as one of the syntactic hierarchies -- 3.3. The meanings of phonemic and morphemic items -- 4. Use -- 5. Concluding remarks: reconciling functional and formal views -- Notes -- References.

Control in constrained dependency grammar -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Introduction to lexicase -- 2.1.Generativity -- 2.2. Constraints -- 2.3. Valency, case relations, and case forms -- 3. Control -- 3.1. Infinitives, complements, adjuncts, and surrogates -- 3.2. Transitivity and control -- 3.2.1. Patterns and control rules -- 3.2.2. P2a -- 3.2.3. Auxiliary verbs -- 3.2.4. Adjectival predicates -- 4. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Appendix: feature names -- Part III. Cross-linguistic morphosyntax -- Grammatical structures in noun incorporation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Preliminaries: the nature of noun incorporation -- 2.1. Incorporation and agnation with "external" arguments -- 2.2. Noun incorporation and grammatical roles -- 2.3. NI and animacy -- 2.4. Categorality of the IN -- 3. Types and structures of NI -- 3.1. Classificatory incorporation -- 3.2. Body part incorporation -- 3.3.Textural NI -- 3.4. Other types of NI? -- 4. NI and related grammatical phenomena -- 5. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- The formal realization of case and agreement marking A functional perspective -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Morphological alignment -- 3. The complementarity in marking hypothesis -- 4. The cross-linguistic data -- 4.1. Case marking -- 4.2, Agreement -- 4.3. Interim summary -- 4.4. Complementarity in marking within languages -- 5. The function of case vs. agreement marking -- 6. Final remarks -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Part IV. Case and semantic roles in discourse -- Functionsof case-marking vs. non-marking in Finnish discourse -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data and coding -- 3. The Finnish case system: some questions of terminology -- 4. Case marking in discourse -- 4.1. Referent introduction -- 4.2. Participant tracking -- 5. Nominative -- 6. Conclusions -- Appendix: Transcription symbols and abbreviations used in the glosses.

Acknowledgments -- References -- The interaction of Russian word order, agreement and case marking -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Preliminaries -- 2.1. Word order -- 2.2. Agreement -- 2.3. Genitive of negation -- 3. Degree of correspondence -- 3.1. Word order and agreement -- 3.2. Word order and the genitive of negation -- 3.3. Agreement and the genitive of negation -- 4. Cases of conflict -- 5. Conclusions -- Notes -- Sources -- References -- Modelsof transitivity in French A systemic-functional interpretation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Models of transitivity: a systemic-functional approach -- 3. Participant roles in functional models other than SF -- 3.1. Macro-functions and verb-specific functions versus ergative functions and transitive functions: comparing Foley and Van Valin (1984) to Halliday (1985) -- 3.2. Starosta's generalised case relations and macro-roles -- 4. Text illustration of the complementarity of the ergative and transitive models in the construal of experiential meaning -- 5. A systemic-functional interpretation of French transitivity -- 5.1. The PROCESS TYPE system: a transitive perspective -- 5,1.1. The DOING potential -- 5.1.2. The PROJECTING potential -- 5.1.3. The BEING potential -- 5.2. AGENCY: an ergative perspective -- 5.2.1. Middle and effective material clauses -- 5.2.2. Middle and effective mental clauses -- 5.2.3. Middle and effective relational clauses -- 6. Exploring patterns of transitivity across two registers -- 7. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Mental process clauses in Japanese -- 1. The problematic notion of 'subject' in Japanese -- 1.1. Previous studies on 'subject' -- 1.2. Aims of this paper -- 1.3. The systemic functional analysis of Subject -- 1.4. Prototypical clauses without Subject -- 2. Adjectives representing a mental process.

2.1. The unmarked form of the mental process clause -- 2.2. The first person as the Senser -- 2.3. The second person as the Senser -- 2.4. The third person as the Senser -- 3. Other elements realizing mental processes -- 3.1. Adjectival verbs designating mental processes -- 3.2. Auxiliary tai -- 3.3. Auxiliary eru -- 4. A systemic interpretation -- 4.1. Interpretation of NG+ga -- 4.2. The basic concept of the mental process clause in Japanese -- List of Abbreviations -- Note -- References -- Index -- List of contributors.

Although the contributors to this book do not belong to one particular 'school' of linguistic theory, they all share an interest in the external functions of language in society and in the relationship between these functions and internal linguistic phenomena. In this sense they all take a functional approach to grammatical issues. Apart from this common starting-point, the contributions share the aim of demonstrating the non-autonomous nature of morphology and syntax, and the inadequacy of linguistic models which deal with syntax, morphology and lexicon in separate, independent components. The recurrent theme throughout the book is the inseparability of lexis and morphosyntax, of structure and function, of grammar and society. The third and more specific common thread is case, which in some contributions is adduced to illustrate the more general point of the link between word form on the one hand and clausal and textual relations on the other hand, while in other papers it is at the centre of the discussion.The interest of the proposed volume consists in the fact that it brings together the views of leading scholars in functional linguistics of various 'denominations' on the place of morphosyntax in linguistic theory. The book provides convincing argumentation against a modular theory with autonomous levels (the dominant framework in mainstream 20th century linguistics) and is a plea for further research into the connections between the lexicogrammar and the linguistic and extralinguistic context.

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