'downstream' effects on the predicate in Function Grammar clause derivations  

Oleh:

Cornish, Francis

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Linguistics (Full Text & ada di PROQUEST & JSTOR) vol. 38 no. 1 (Jul. 2002), page 247-278.
Fulltext: downstream.pdf (400.72KB)

Isi artikel

The article deals with the dynamic, retroactive effects within a clause derivation of various `downstream' speci®cations (that is, at subsequent levels in the derivation) on the semantic structure and aspectual character of the predicator at the `nuclear', `core' and `extended' predication layers within standard Functional Grammar (Dik 1997a) ± speci®cally, the insertion of given types of argument expressions within the predicate frame and the adjunction of certain semantically marked types of level 1 and level 2 satellites. A third type of retroactive effect is produced via the assignment or otherwise of the pragmatic function `Focus' to the syntactic exponent of a predicate, which results in the singling out of a given part of the latter's semantic structure to act as a predicator. All these dynamic, retroactive effects on a predicator and the structures it projects assume a semantically transparent underlying predicate structure on which to operate; yet in the standard FG model, no such structure is available via the predicate frame, which forms the initial structure for the derivation of a clause. The article demonstrates the drawbacks of the strict separation of meaning de®nitions (lexical semantics) and predicate frames (semantically-based syntax) within FG in terms, precisely, of the perspicuous mapping between syntax and semantics. It proposes a semantically transparent alternative to the standard predicate frame, based on Pustejovsky's (1995) `Generative Lexicon' approach to lexico-semantic structure.

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