Functional Discourse Grammar Theory of Grammaticalization

Riccardo Giomi, Ph.D. (2020), University of Lisbon, is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Liège. He has authored several publications on Functional Discourse Grammar, among which Headedness and modification in Functional Discourse Grammar (Glossa 5.1, 2020) and The place of interpersonal lexemes in linguistic theory, with special reference to Functional Discourse Grammar (Corpus Pragmatics 5.2, 2021).

• 9789004520448AcknowledgementsList of Tables and FiguresAbbreviations1 Introduction1.1 Theoretical Setting and Scope of the Research1.2 State of the Art and Research Questions2 Functional Discourse Grammar2.1 General Features2.2 Layered Structure2.3 Four Levels of Grammatical Analysis2.4 Summary3 Grammaticalization between Structure and Context3.1 Grammaticalization: History, Basic Concepts and Matters of Controversy3.2 Lehmann’s Parameters and Processes3.3 Paradigmatic Change3.4 Grammaticalization as Context-Induced Reinterpretation3.5 Towards an FDG Theory of Grammaticalization4 Previous Approaches to Functional Change4.1 Meaning Generalization4.2 From Concrete to Abstract Meaning4.3 From “Material” to “Relational” Meaning4.4 Loss of Predicativity/Referentiality4.5 Subjectification, Intersubjectification and Discourse Orientation4.6 Summary5 Grammaticalization as Scope Increase5.1 Grammar and Conceptualization in FDG and in Other Functional Models5.2 Scope Increase in FDG5.3 Putative Counterexamples to the Scope-Increase Hypothesis5.4 Refining the Scope-Increase Hypothesis5.5 Conclusions and Outline of the Following Chapters6 The Grammaticalization of Semantic, Pragmatic and Rhetorical Functions6.1 Introduction6.2 The Diachronic Development of Function Markers6.3 Conclusions7 When Scope Does Not Matter7.1 Theoretical Preliminaries7.2 Secondary Grammaticalization Changes Unrelated to Scope Increase7.3 Discussion and Conclusions8 Primary Grammaticalization: What Is Lexical and What Is Grammatical?8.1 Introduction8.2 The Lexical/Grammatical Dichotomy in FDG8.3 Keizer’s Parameters Revisited8.4 Lexical Roots and Derivational Affixes8.5 Primary Grammaticalization without Lexemes: The Case of Non-verbal Predication8.6 Summary9 ConclusionsReferencesLanguage IndexSubject Index