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

Edited By Christopher S. Butler, Raquel Hidalgo Downing, Julia Lavid. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. This book, a tribute to Angela Downing, consists of twenty papers taking a broadly functional perspective on language, with topics ranging from the general (grammar as an evolutionary product, text comprehension, integrative linguistics) to particular aspects of the grammars of languages (Bulgarian, English, Icelandic, Spanish, Swedish). The more specific papers are sequenced according to Halliday's division into ideational, textual and interpersonal aspects of the grammar, and cover a wide range of areas, including aspect, argument structure, noun phrase/nominal group structure and nominalisa