A structural–functional account of NP-internal mood

Velde, Freek Van de

doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2011.10.007

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“… 5 Note that some linguists (e.g. Van de Velde 2012: 14; Ramat & Rica 1998) have categorized these adverbs as interpersonal, due to their subjective nature and the fact that they cannot be focused (clefted, questioned) and fall outside the scope of negation. As pointed out below, however, these features only show that these adverbs are non-predicational, not that they are interpersonal.…”

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The problem of non-truth-conditional, lower-level modifiers: a Functional Discourse Grammar solution

Keizer

2019

English Language and Linguistics

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This article discusses two groups of prosodically and linearly integrated modifiers: evaluative (‘subject-oriented’) adverbs (e.g. cleverly, stupidly and recklessly) and non-restrictive prenominal modifiers (e.g. old as in my old mother). What these two groups of elements have in common is the rather puzzling fact that both are (or have been analysed as) relatively low-level modifiers (i.e. as part of the proposition), while at the same time being non-truth-conditional/non-restrictive (suggesting they are non-propositional). In this article it is argued that although there is indeed compelling syntactic evidence that these elements modify a relatively low layer in the clause (proposition or lower), this need not be incompatible with their non-truth-conditional/non-restrictive status. Using the theory of Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG), an analysis is proposed in which these elements are not part of the proposition expressed by the clause in which they occur, but instead form part of a separate proposition, in which they function as non-verbal predicates taking a specific layer of analysis (e.g. a proposition, State-of-Affairs, entity or property) as their argument. The analysis proposed not only reconciles the specific semantic and syntactic properties of the modifiers in question, but also reveals the similarities between the two groups of modifiers discussed.

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The problem of non-truth-conditional, lower-level modifiers: a Functional Discourse Grammar solution

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2019

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Rijkhoff¹

2015

International Encyclopedia of the Social &Amp; Behavioral Sciences

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The way constituents are ordered in a linguistic expression is determined by general principles and language-specific rules. This article is mostly concerned with general ordering principles and the three main linguistic categories that are relevant for constituent order research: formal, functional, and semantic categories. The general principles appear to be motivated by cognitive considerations, which are deemed to facilitate language processing and which can all be regarded as manifestations of iconicity: nonarbitrary relations between the form and the content of a linguistic expression. Three major iconic ordering principles are the principles of Domain Integrity, Scope, and Head Proximity.

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The discourse-motivated potential of view-point adverbs in -wise: A Functional Discourse Grammar perspective

Muñoz

2016

Lingua

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A structural–functional account of NP-internal mood

Cited by 7 publications

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The problem of non-truth-conditional, lower-level modifiers: a Functional Discourse Grammar solution

The problem of non-truth-conditional, lower-level modifiers: a Functional Discourse Grammar solution

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The discourse-motivated potential of view-point adverbs in -wise: A Functional Discourse Grammar perspective

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