Complex Structures

413 Pages·7.791 MB·English

by  Betty Devriendt, Louis Goossens, Johan van der Auwera (eds.)

Complex Structures
Functional Grammar Series 17
Editors
A. Machtelt Bolkestein
Simon C. Dik f
Casper de Groot
J. Lachlan Mackenzie
Mouton de Gruyter
Berlin · New York
Complex Structures
A Functionalist Perspective
edited by
Betty Devriendt
Louis Goossens
Johan van der Auwera
Mouton de Gruyter
Berlin · New York 1996
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Complex structures : a functionalist perspective / edited by
Betty Devriendt, Louis Goossens, Johan van der Auwera.
p. cm. - (Functional grammar series ; 17)
Chiefly papers presented at the 5th International Confe-
rence on Functional Grammar which was held Aug. 1992.
Antwerp. Belgium.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents: Layering in functional grammars / Christopher
S. Butler - Toward a functionalist account of so-called ex-
traction constraints / Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. - Sentence
intertwining in Danish, seen from a functional grammar per-
spective / Lisbeth Falster Jakobsen.
ISBN 3-11-014385-2
1. Functionalism (Linguistics)-Congresses. 2. Grammar,
Comparative and general-Syntax-Congresses. I. Devriendt,
Betty. 1945- II. Goossens, Louis. III. Auwera, Johan
van der. IV. International Conference on Functional Gram-
mar (5th : 1992 : Antwerp. Belgium) V. Series.
P147.C66 1995
415-dc20 95-24643
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who initiated it all

Contents
Introduction ix
List of contributors xix
List of abbreviations and symbols xxi
Layering in functional grammars: a comparative survey
Christopher S. Butler 1
Toward a functionalist account of so-called extraction
constraints
Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. 29
Sentence intertwining in Danish, seen from a Functional
Grammar perspective
Lisbeth Falster Jakobsen 61
Subordinators in a semantic clause structure
Peter Harder 93
The internal structure of adverbial clauses
Kees Hengeveld 119
A classification of conditional satellites
Martine Cuvalay 149
Conditionals at different levels of the clause
Gerry Wakker 177
On the layering of the underlying clause structure in
Functional Grammar
Ahmed Moutaouakil 201
Terminality operators and their hierarchical status
Lars Johanson 229
Particles
Tim van Baar 259
Dutch modal particles, historical evidence and
Functional Grammar
Roel Vismans 303
viii Contents
English nominalizations in the layered model of the sentence
J. Lachlan Mackenzie 325
Some simple cases of ellipsis in coordinate structures
CoVet 357
Author index 377
Language index 380
Subject index 381
Introduction
This collective volume offers a selection of papers dealing with
different aspects of complex structures from a functionalist point of
view. Most of the articles relate to Functional Grammar (FG) as out-
lined in Dik (1989), though some of the authors formulate their
insights in a broad functionalist perspective which seeks only
marginal association with FG. In two papers, for that matter, the
frameworks adopted or focused on are Role and Reference Grammar
and Systemic Functional Grammar. Most of the contributions were
presented at the Fifth International Conference on Functional
Grammar, which took place in Antwerp in August 1992. Others were
specifically invited for this book.
Complex structures is intended here to cover both aspects of
complex sentences (sentences involving subordination or coordina-
tion) and complexities relating to the hierarchical or layered structure
of the clause (as understood by Functional Grammar). In several
papers those two dimensions are intertwined.
Whereas some of these studies stand on their own, others show
varying degrees of thematic relationships which permit grouping
together. In the order in which they succeed each other in this vol-
ume, the following solos, duos and quartet can be discerned.
(i) Butler offers a comparison between three current functional
models — Functional Grammar, Role and Reference Grammar and
Systemic Functional Grammar —, emphasizing especially their
differences with respect to layering.
(ii) The next two papers are concerned with specific syntactic
complexities. Van Valin gives a functional account of so-called
extraction phenomena in terms of Role and Reference Grammar.
Falster studies "DisCon" elements in Danish, constituents which
occur in main clauses, but whose syntactic and semantic function has
to be assigned in the subordinate clause.
(iii) Four contributions are devoted to subordinate clauses. Harder
concentrates on the status of subordinators (subordinating conjunc-