1st Edition

Relational Grammar

By Barry Blake Copyright 1990
212 Pages
by Routledge

214 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

Relational Grammar had its beginnings in the early 1970s. In this theory of the structure of language grammatical relations are taken to be `undefined primitives'. The set of relations recognised includes subject, direct object, indirect object and a number of `oblique' relations including benefactive, locative and instrumental. This is the first book that describes the theory's basic ideas,... Read more
1. Outline 2. Some clause-internal revaluations 3. Reflexives and impersonals 4. Multi-node networks 5. Clause union 6. Relations and strata 7. Describing different nuclear types 8. Overview

Biography

Barry Blake