The Linguistic Description and Analysis of 2 Samuel 11–12 From The Perspective of Functional Grammar In the Tradition of Simon Dik

What it is about

Not read: the PDF could not be fetched. From the title and the framework it names: the thesis describes the David–Bathsheba–Uriah story and Nathan's parable (2 Samuel 11–12) in Simon Dik's Functional Grammar. That framework gives each clause a layered structure (predicate, predication, proposition, illocution), assigns semantic functions (Agent, Goal, Recipient …), syntactic functions (Subject, Object) and pragmatic functions: Topic and Focus inside the clause, Theme (a constituent set out before it) and Tail (one added after it). Anstey later wrote a functional grammar of the Hebrew verb, so the thesis is likely to treat tense, mood and illocution in the same layered way. Check against the text.

Ideas

• I1. (to check) Use Dik's extra-clausal functions as labels in our trees: a left-dislocated NP with a resumptive pronoun = Theme, an afterthought NP = Tail; both map to UD dislocated.
• I2. (to check) Separate illocution (statement, question, command, request) from verb form: record illocution in the act column of prag.tsv independently of MISC Type, as FG's layering suggests.
• I3. Nathan's parable as a test of embedded fiction: a story told inside a quote should open a nested world, not add events to the main one.

For Mova

I1 applies to tools/macula (dislocated) and 08-syntax.md (dislocation); I2 to src/prag.rs; I3 to the world reader (nested narrative inside speech). The thesis is on 2 Samuel, outside the Torah trees. Re-read once the PDF is in.

Topics: Speech act theory

Cite

The paper itself, not this card. BibTeX from the library's record of the work. DOI 10.2986/tren.048-0243

@misc{anstey2000linguistic,
  title = {{The Linguistic Description and Analysis of 2 Samuel 11–12 From The Perspective of Functional Grammar In the Tradition of Simon Dik}},
  author = {Anstey, Matthew},
  year = {2000},
  doi = {10.2986/tren.048-0243},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.2986/tren.048-0243}
}

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