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discourse context (Givón 2001a:285). It is easy to see that tense is fundamentally a
pragmatic rather than propositional semantic phenomenon, anchoring the proposition

to a temporal point outside itself. And, the grammar of detransitive clauses ranges
over both propositional semantic and discourse-pragmatic functions like agent
suppression in passive, reflexive and detransitive constructions. According to Givón

(2010:42), "the grammar of non-declarative (manipulative) speech acts is confined to
here-and-now, you-and-I, the immediate speech situation which is more related to

discourse-pragmatic context."
The differences between the transformational-generative and functional-typological

approaches can be summarized as in the Table 2.1, based on Givón (1984:7-9).

10. Givón (1995a: 305) notes, "tracking the communicative use of grammar via the distribution of
grammar in text has been the central tool in the methodological arsenal of the functional
grammarian."
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