Sentence examples for discourse grammar from inspiring English sources

functional discourse grammar.

The paper proposes a dynamic account of Functional Discourse Grammar.

This paper examines the process of conversion in English in the context of Functional Discourse Grammar.

The segment may be at the stratum of discourse, grammar or expression.

The basics of such a theory and its implications for the architecture of Functional Discourse Grammar are also offered.

The aim of this paper is to shed new light on the various discourse uses of view-point adverbs in -wise and to provide an account within the Functional Discourse Grammar model.

For, as Humboldt put it "… language in actuality only exists in spoken discourse, its grammar and dictionary are hardly even comparable to its dead skeleton (Die Sprache liegt nur in der verbundenen Rede, Grammatik und Wörterbuch sind kaum ihrem todten Gerippe vergleichbar" GS Vol 6, 147).

The first of these concerns the linguistics/pragmatics interface and the relationship between grammar and discourse.

One unique characteristic is its combination of discourse analysis with 'universal' grammar.

bThe first theme of the SAL Project suggested by Christian Matthiessen refers to verbal processes from grammar to discourse.

Present-day corpus linguistics has grown out of a long tradition of using texts as the empirical basis for linguistic description, studying all levels of language, including phonology, lexis, grammar, and discourse.