Predicative categories in the functional aspect: potential and verbalization. Book Review: Bondarko, A.V. & Kazakovskaya, V.V. (eds) (2017) Problemy funktsional'noy grammatiki. Predikativnye kategorii v vyskazyvanii i tselostnom tekste [Problems of functional grammar. Predicative categories in u

This monograph is the sixth volume of Problems of Functional Grammar. It is published shortly after the decease of Alexander Bondarko, the corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, author of the theory of functional grammar, leader of St. Petersburg Functional Grammar Research Group. He had managed to write and finish the preface to this book and completely read and edit most of the chapters. As it was in the previous volumes, the book not only describes the Russian grammar (using synchronic and diachronic approaches), but also studies the data from Samoyedic, Paleo-Siberian, Tungusic and Romance languages. The main attention is paid to the representation of predicative categories in speech, their functions in discourse and text. In the third part of the monograph, these problems are examined from the perspective of first language acquisition. The book was edited by the Department of Theory of Grammar at the Institute for Linguistic Studies RAS (Saint Petersburg). It will appeal to all kind of linguists, teachers of Russian and foreign languages, specialists in typology and psycholinguistics. The authors of the chapters are scholars from Moscow, Novgorod, Oldenburg and Saint Petersburg.

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