Functional domains of language
functional domain | main areas |
categorization | conceptual types, categorization systems (nominal classes), proper names |
concept formation | relationality (kinship), modification (attribution, apposition), concept anchoring (incl. by participation) |
quantification, measuring and ordering | plurality, counting, non-numeral quantification, measurement and collection |
reference | individuation, specificity, anchorage (incl. deixis), phora, reference tracking, determination |
possession | possession in reference, possessive predication, possession and participation |
predication | identification, categorization, characterization, situation (existence, placement, state, presentation), change of state; secondary predication |
participation | control and affectedness, experience, peripheral roles |
design of situations | holistic vs. analytic representation, time stability, telicity, quality and quantity of situation core (intensification) |
orientation in space | orientation points, local relations, spatial regions, spatial and gestalt properties of objects, position and posture, motion |
orientation in time | phases of a situation, absolute time, temporal relation |
junction | proposition vs. state-of-affairs, intrinsic relations (reported speech, content propositions), extrinsic relations (logical relations, concrete relations), pragmatic level of interpropositional relations |
polarity | negation, contrast, comparison, gradation |
illocution and modality | illocution (declaration, question, exclamation, request and command, hortatory/monitory), modality (obligation, volition, possibility), evidentiality; speaker's state of mind |
discourse structure | information structure (topic vs. comment, presupposition vs. assertion, focus, emphasis) |