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In:Functionalism in Linguistics
Edited by René Dirven † and Vilém Fried
[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe 20] 1987
► pp. v–viii

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Published online: 1 January 1987
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Table of contents

By way of introductionix
I. ‘Functional liguistics of Prague’ and other functional approaches
On Prague school functionalism in linguistics3
M.A.K. Halliday’s functional grammar and the Prague school39
Some principles of functional grammar81
S.C. Dik’s functional grammar: A pilgrimage to Prague?101
II. The theme-rheme (tpoic-comment) issue in the Praguian tradition
On the delimitation of the theme in functional sentence perspective137
Constitutive, informative and transformative models in modern English texts and sentences157
Prague functionalism an topic vs. focus169
Functional sentence perspective and intensional logic191
A functionalist approach to the acquisition of grammar209
Functional sentence perspective in discourse and language acquisition265
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Processing strategies: A psycholinguistic neofunctionalism?297
IV. Functionalism in general linguistics
The overestimation of functionalism311
Function and structure in linguistic descriptions333
Communication and expressivity357
Functions of intonation381
Written language seen from the functionalist angle395
V. Functionalism in linguistic description
Word-formation and poetic language: Non-lexicalized nominal compounds in the poetry of Kevin Crossley-Holland409
On acceptable violations of parallelism constraints425
A case of syntactic mimicry459
Functionalism in contrastive analysis and translation studies471
Index483
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