In:Reconnecting Form and Meaning: In honour of Kristin Davidse
Edited by Caroline Gentens, Lobke Ghesquière, William B. McGregor and An Van linden
[Studies in Language Companion Series 230] 2023
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Published online: 10 February 2023
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Table of contents
General acknowledgementsVII
Introduction.Reconnecting form and meaning: Lexis and grammar from cognitive-functional and usage-based perspectives1
Caroline Gentens
Lobke Ghesquière
William B. McGregor
An Van linden
Section 1.Information structure
Chapter 1.On the use of there-clefts with zero subject relativizer17
Gunther Kaltenböck
Chapter 2.Impersonal passives in English and Norwegian45
Hilde Hasselgård
Chapter 3.Atopicality as the unmarked logical structure in Scottish Gaelic71
Tom Bartlett
Section 2.Usage-based approaches to grammar and the lexicon
Chapter 4.On the rise of a marker of disaffiliation from Others’ discourse99
Elizabeth Closs Traugott
Chapter 5.Towards a radically usage-based account of constructional attrition: Integrating subtractive language developments in the Entrenchment-and-Conventionalization model123
Dirk Noël
Chapter 6.The compound pronouns someone/somebody and everyone/everybody in present-day spoken English: An analysis based on the Spoken BNC2014 corpus145
Chris Butler
Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen
Section 3.Theoretical issues in functional linguistics
Chapter 7.Iconicity in spatial deixis: A cross-linguistic study of 180 demonstrative systems185
Merlijn Breunesse
Holger Diessel
Chapter 8.A cognitive-functional approach to watch as a verb of perception209
Lucy Chrispin
Lise Fontaine
Chapter 9.Zero-marking or nothing to mark? The case against absolutive ‘case’ in Gooniyandi237
William B. McGregor
Chapter 10.Enation and agnation in multi-level models: The case for Functional Discourse Grammar267
Evelien Keizer
Author index299
Language index301
Subject index303
