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Modification in Functional Discourse Grammar: State of the art and issues addressed
Open Linguistics, 2022 This is an introduction to the Special Issue on Modification in Functional Discourse Grammar.
Keizer Evelien +2 more
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The implementation of grammatical functions in Functional Discourse Grammar
Alfa: Revista de Lingüística, 2007 <p>In standard FG (DIK, 1997) grammatical functions are assigned directly to the underlying representation in a more or less across the board fashion, only taking into consideration the language dependent semantic function hierarchy.
Anna Siewierska, Dik Bakker
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Grammar and context in Functional Discourse Grammar [PDF]
Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), 2015 This article presents a proposal for the organization of the Contextual Component in Functional Discourse Grammar. A guiding principle in this proposal is that, given the fact that Functional Discourse Grammar is a theory of grammar, the Contextual Component should provide the information that is necessary for a proper functioning of the grammar rather
Kees Hengeveld, J. Lachlan Mackenzie
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Grammar: A Complex Structure. A Linguistic Description of Esperanto in Functional Discourse Grammar [PDF]
Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems, 2015 Functional Discourse-Grammar or FDG is the latest development in the functional grammar that was initiated by the Dutch linguist Simon Dik (1940-1995). In this paper, the FDG architecture proper is described, including the role of the extra-grammatical ...
Wim Jansesn
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Information packaging in Functional Discourse Grammar
Alfa: Revista de Lingüística, 2007 <p>The paper addresses the modelling of information packaging in Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG), in particular the treatment of Topic, Comment and Focus.
Niels Smit
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The lexicon in Functional Discourse Grammar: Theory, typology, description
Linguistics, 2016 AbstractThis paper discusses the treatment of the lexicon in Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG) and serves to provide a general introduction to the theoretical framework and its formalizations, in particular for readers who may not be intimately familiar with it.
Evelien Keizer, Daniel Garcia Velasco
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Context in Functional Discourse Grammar
Alfa: Revista de Lingüística, 2007 <p>An important and admirable characteristic of the FDG framework is that it takes very seriously the fact that utterances are produced and understood in context.
John H. Connolly
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English partitives in Functional Discourse Grammar: types and constraints
Glossa, 2017 The aim of this paper is to provide a unified analysis of partitive constructions like one/some of the boxes which, unlike previous accounts, succeeds in accounting for (i) both their internal structure and the constraints on the embedded NP, and (ii ...
Evelien Keizer
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Systems of TMA and Related Categories in Functional Discourse Grammar: A Brief Overview
Open Linguistics, 2018 In this introductory paper, we will briefly introduce FDG and its treatment of systems of tense, aspect, mood, evidentiality, polarity, mirativity and localization, as well as their lexical counterparts.
Hengeveld Kees, Olbertz Hella
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Reflecting on Functional Discourse Grammar as i self-isolate
Cadernos de Linguística, 2021 These reflections, composed during a period of self-isolation in Lisbon, begin by sketching how Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG) finds its origins in Simon Dik’s Functional Grammar and then briefly set out some of the major principles of FDG.
J. Lachlan Mackenzie
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