WP-FDG-82
Special Issue: The London papers I
Evelien Keizer and Gerry Wanders (editors)
Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands
December 2009
This special issue contains six contributions, all based on papers presented at the 13th
International Conference on Functional Grammar, held at The University of
Westminster, London in September 2008. Addressing a variety of subjects and
dealing with a range of languages, the papers are all written within the framework of
Functional Discourse Grammar.
Contents
English fail to as a periphrastic negative: an FDG account
J. Lachlan Mackenzie
pages
1-28
Non-straightforward communication
Kees Hengeveld and Evelien Keizer
29-50
Integration of Subsidiary Discourse Acts in Brazilian Portuguese
Valéria Vendrame
51-65
Mirativity and Exclamatives in Functional Discourse Grammar:
evidence from Spanish
Hella Olbertz
66-82
Exceptive Constructions : From the Arabic Grammatical Tradition to
Functional Discourse Grammar
Ahmed Moutaouakil
83-96
Text and discourse as context: Discourse anaphora and the FDG
Contextual Component
Francis Cornish
97-115