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Reconnecting Form and Meaning
In honour of Kristin Davidse
This volume is intended as a celebration of Kristin Davidse’s work and its impact within the broad traditions of cognitive, functional and usage-based grammars. Reflecting this wide functionalist lens, the contributions develop ideas central to Neo-Firthian theories of grammar (in particular, Semiotic Grammar and SFL), the Prague School, Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG), and broader cognitive-functional (e.g. Construction Grammar) and usage-based approaches (e.g. Entrenchment-and-Conventionalization theory, corpus-based sociolinguistics). The range of topics addressed makes the volume particularly relevant to linguists investigating information structure, construction grammar, functional discourse grammar, spatial deixis, pronoun and case systems, and/or the semantics of verbal constructions.
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 230] 2023. vii, 305 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 18 January 2023
Published online on 18 January 2023
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- General acknowledgments | pp. vii–8
- Introduction. Reconnecting form and meaning: Lexis and grammar from cognitive-functional and usage-based perspectivesCaroline Gentens, Lobke Ghesquière, William B. McGregor and An Van linden | pp. 1–13
- Section 1. Information structure
- Chapter 1. On the use of there-clefts with zero subject relativizerGunther Kaltenböck | pp. 17–43
- Chapter 2. Impersonal passives in English and NorwegianHilde Hasselgård | pp. 45–69
- Chapter 3. Atopicality as the unmarked logical structure in Scottish GaelicTom Bartlett | pp. 71–95
- Section 2. Usage-based approaches to grammar and the lexicon
- Chapter 4. On the rise of a marker of disaffiliation from Others’ discourseElizabeth Closs Traugott | pp. 99–122
- Chapter 5. Towards a radically usage-based account of constructional attrition: Integrating subtractive language developments in the Entrenchment-and-Conventionalization modelDirk Noël | pp. 123–144
- Chapter 6. The compound pronouns someone/somebody and everyone/everybody in present-day spoken English: An analysis based on the Spoken BNC2014 corpusChristopher S. Butler and Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen | pp. 145–182
- Section 3. Theoretical issues in functional linguistics
- Chapter 7. Iconicity in spatial deixis: A cross-linguistic study of 180 demonstrative systemsMerlijn Breunesse and Holger Diessel | pp. 185–207
- Chapter 8. A cognitive-functional approach to watch as a verb of perceptionLucy Chrispin and Lise Fontaine | pp. 209–236
- Chapter 9. Zero-marking or nothing to mark? The case against absolutive ‘case’ in GooniyandiWilliam B. McGregor | pp. 237–265
- Chapter 10. Enation and agnation in multi-level models: The case for Functional Discourse GrammarEvelien Keizer | pp. 267–298
- Author index | pp. 299–300
- Language index | pp. 301–302
- Subject index | pp. 303–305
“To conclude, the editors are to be applauded for not only curating the individual chapters but also arranging them in three themes which pay homage to Davidse’s important contributions in the development of functional and cognitive linguistics. It is my firm hope that this work, solid and influential in its own right, will not only be read but also will inspire readers to engage with Davidse’s ongoing and important oeuvre.”
Gerard O’Grady, Cardiff University, in English Language and Linguistics (2024).