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In:Reconnecting Language: Morphology and Syntax in Functional Perspectives
Edited by Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen, Kristin Davidse and Dirk Noël
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 154] 1997
► pp. v–vi

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Published online: 31 October 1997

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Table of contents

Introductionvii

Part I: Reconnecting language

Linguistics as metaphor3

M.A.K. Halliday

Language as a faculty, languages as ‘contingent’ manifestations and humans as function builders29

Linguistics — systemic and functional: Renewing the ‘warrant’49

Robert de Beaugrande

Part II: Dependency

Structure, meaning and use73

Control in constrained dependency grammar99

Stanley Starosta

Part III: Cross-linguistic morphosyntax

Grammatical structures in noun incorporation141

William B. McGregor

The formal realization of case and agreement marking: A functional perspective181

Anna Siewierska

Part IV: Case and semantic roles in discourse

Functions of case-marking vs. non-marking in Finnish discourse213

Marja-Liisa Helasvuo

The interaction of Russian word order, agreement and case marking227

Karen E. Robblee

Models of transitivity in French: A systemic-functional interpretation249

Alice Caffarel-Cayron

Mental process clauses in Japanese297

Index329

List of contributors337