Functional Perspectives on Grammar and Discourse: In Honour of Angela Downing (Studies in Language Companion)

498 Pages·2007·6.93 MB·English

by  Christopher S. Butler

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FunctionalPerspectivesonGrammarandDiscourse
InhonourofAngelaDowning
EditedbyChristopherS.Butler,RaquelHidalgoDowningandJuliaLavid
Functional Perspectives
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In honour of Angela Downing
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Christopher S. Butler
UniversityofWales,Swansea
Raquel Hidalgo Downing
Julia Lavid
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Table of contents
Contributors ix
Editorial introduction xvii
Christopher S. Butler, Raquel Hidalgo Downing and Julia Lavid
Publications of Angela Downing xxvii
Grammar as an adaptive evolutionary product 1
T. Givón
Towards a cognitive-functional model of text comprehension 41
Christopher S. Butler
Towards an integrational approach in linguistics 81
Andrei Stoevsky
Expressing past habit in English and Swedish. A corpus-based contrastive study 97
Bengt Altenberg
Do cognate and circumstantial complements of intransitive verbs
form one ‘Range’? A corpus-based discussion 129
Kathleen Rymen and Kristin Davidse
The unconscious, irresponsible construction in Modern Icelandic 149
Enrique Bernárdez
Modelling ‘selection’ between referents in the English nominal group:
An essay in scientific inquiry in linguistics 165
Robin P. Fawcett
Problems in NP structure: An example from British tabloid journalism 205
Eirian Davies
Double-possessive nominalizations in English 217
J. Lachlan Mackenzie
 Functional Perspectives on Grammar and Discourse
Pragmatics, word order and cross-reference. Some issues with pronominal
clitics in Bulgarian 233
Svilen B. Stanchev
Patterns of multiple theme and their role in developing English writing skills 257
Mike Hannay
Interactive solution-problems: A set of structures in general
and scientific writing 279
Michael P. Jordan
The English Contrastive Discourse Marker instead 301
Bruce Fraser
Global and local attention in task-oriented conversation: An empirical
investigation 313
Julia Lavid
Metadiscursive and interpersonal values of pronominal topics
in spoken Spanish 327
Raquel Hidalgo Downing and Laura Hidalgo Downing
Phatic communion and small talk in fictional dialogues 349
Ludmila Urbanová
Mister so-called X. Discourse functions and subjectification of so-called 359
Lieven Vandelanotte
‘Sorry to muddy the waters’. Accounting for speech act formulae and
formulaic variation in a systemic functional model of language 395
Gordon Tucker
The discourse functionality of adjectival and adverbial epistemic expressions.
Evidence from present-day English 419
Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen and Karin Aijmer
Modality across World Englishes: Th e modals and semi-modals
of prediction and volition 447
Peter C. Collins
Name index 469
Subject index 473
Language index 481
Contributors
Karin Aijmer is professor of English at Göteborg University. Among her recent publi-
cations are Conversational routines in English. Convention and creativity (1996) and
English discourse particles. Evidence from a corpus (2002). She is one of the editors of
English corpus linguistics. Studies in honour of Jan Svartvik (1991). She is the leader of
the project ’Contrastive Studies in a Translation Perspective’ which has the aim of car-
rying out cross-linguistic research on the basis of the English-Swedish Parallel Corpus.
She is also responsible for the Swedish part of collecting a spoken learner corpus of
advanced Swedish learners and has been involved in the collection of the Swedish
component of the International Corpus of Learner English. Her research interests in-
clude text and discourse, spoken English, corpus linguistics, cross-cultural linguistics,
learner English. She is currently working on a book on modal adverbs of certainty to-
gether with Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen.
Bengt Altenberg is Professor (Emeritus) of English at the University of Lund, Sweden.
He has written extensively on the use of English in speech and writing and is the au-
thor of The genitive vs. the of-construction. A study of syntactic variation in 17th cen-
tury English (Lund University Press, 1982) and Prosodic patterns in spoken English.
Studies in the correlation between prosody and grammar for text-to-speech conversion
(Lund University Press, 1987). Most of his recent work has been devoted to corpus-
based contrastive linguistics, comparing various aspects of English and Swedish on the
basis of the English-Swedish Parallel Corpus, a bi-directional translation corpus. He
has also co-edited several collections of corpus-based studies, such as Advances in cor-
pus linguistics. Studies in honour of Jan Svartvik (Longman, 1991), Languages in con-
trast (Lund University Press, 1996), Lexis in contrast (John Benjamins, 2002) and Ad-
vances in corpus linguistics (Rodopi, 2004).
Enrique Bernárdez (Madrid, Spain, 1949) studied German at the Universidad Com-
plutense, Madrid, then did postgraduate study on Dutch at the Rijksuniversiteit Gron-
ingen, The Netherlands. He has been teaching at the Universidad Complutense since
1972, since 1986 as Full Professor; he has taught English historical linguistics and Is-
sues in Cognitive Linguistics. He has published books on general linguistics and text
linguistics, and many papers on these subjects and also historical and typological lan-
guage studies. He is also a translator, especially from Old and Modern Icelandic, rang-
ing from Sagas and the Edda to such contemporary authors as Gudbergur Bergsson,
Halldór Laxness and Sjón. He has been an invited professor and researcher at several