Biblical Hebrew Forum

["David Kummerow" <farmerjoeblo AT hotmail.com>]

Re: A New Architecture for Functional Grammar

Looks good - but as always, pricy. I've only read Matthew Anstey's essay 
"Functional Grammar from its Inception" which he emailed me a few months ago 
before the book was out. Good presentation and assessment of the history and 
development of FG.

David Kummerow.

> From: "C. Stirling Bartholomew" <jacksonpollock AT earthlink.net>
> To: David Kummerow <farmerjoeblo AT hotmail.com>,<b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Pronoun )nky in Judg. 6:8
> Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 22:12:47 -0700
>
> On 10/6/04 8:46 PM, "David Kummerow" <farmerjoeblo AT hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Personally, I think you've identified the big problem with Chomskyian
> > grammar and why I don't like it myself: it neglects the distributional
> > syntactic data that doesn't fit with the "theory".
>
> OK.
>
> >
> > But watch that you aren't setting up a straw man with Holmstedt. Prior 
> to
> > the Proverbs work he did an analysis of every clauses in *Genesis*. See 
> pp.
> > 126-159 of his dissertation avalible here:
>
>
> Thanks for the link David, I will look at it,
>
> Apparently I missed the mark with Holmstedt. This is very easy to do.
> Reminds me of long discussions over dinner with a J.Derrida disciple, who
> keeps telling me "you don't understand, you don't understand." When it 
> comes
> to minimalism the first thing I am willing to admit is I don't understand.
>
> Meanwhile I am waiting for my library to fetch (InteLibLoan) the following:
>
>
> *********
> A New Architecture for Functional Grammar
>
> Ed. by Mackenzie, J. Lachlan / Gómez-González, María de los Ángeles.
>
> 2004. 23 x 15.5 cm. XIV, 394 pages. Paperback. Euro [D] 39.95 / sFr 64.00 /
> approx. US$ 48.00.
> ISBN 3-11-017356-5
> MOUTON DE GRUYTER
> **********
>
> Looks like a good read, No?
>
>
> greetings,
> Clay Bartholomew

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