Object assignment in a Functional Grammar of Croatian revisited

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Brdar
Keyword(s):  
Functional Grammar ◽  
Object Assignment

scholarly journals Object Assignment in S.C. Dik’s Functional Grammar: Marginal Accessibility in English

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pilar Guerrero Molina
Keyword(s):  
Functional Grammar ◽  
Subject And Object ◽  
Object Assignment

The approach to Subject and Object assignment in Dik<s Functional Grammaris one of the most controversial aspects of the theory. Dik (1997) formulates auniversal hierarchy of semantic functions determining accessibility to theSubject and Object functions. The icut-off pointj for Object assignment inEnglish is established after the Beneficiary. However, it is my contention thatObject assignment is not restricted to Goal, Recipient and Beneficiary terms.As I will try to illustrate in this paper, there are other more marginal possibilitiesthat suggest that the productivity of Object assigment is a matter of degree (cf.Brdar and Brdar Szabó 1993).

Typological and theoretical implications

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
John J. Lowe
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Functional Grammar ◽  
Lexical Functional Grammar ◽  
Mixed Categories

This chapter briefly considers the evidence for transitive nouns and adjectives in early Indo-Aryan in both a typological and a theoretical perspective. The fact that most transitive nouns and adjectives in early Indo-Aryan fall under the traditional heading of ‘agent nouns’ (subject-oriented formations) is typologically notable, since while action nouns with verbal government are well-known, the possibility of relatively verbal agent nouns has not always been acknowledged. The theoretical analysis is framed within Lexical-Functional Grammar, and makes use of the concept of ‘mixed’ categories to effect a clear formalization of transitive nouns and adjectives which captures their transitivity while allowing them to remain fundamentally nouns and adjectives in categorial terms.

Formal and Functional Grammar

1919 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 500
Author(s):  
Margaret McLaughlin
Keyword(s):  
Functional Grammar
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