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Information packaging in Functional Discourse Grammar
<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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Context in Functional Discourse Grammar
<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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Idiomatic expressions in Functional Discourse Grammar
AbstractThis article addresses the question of how the theory of Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG), with its clear distinction between lexicon and grammar, can deal with semi-fixed constructions by proposing a consistent and cognitively plausible account of idiomatic expressions that can not only deal with the partly unpredictable and partly ...
E. Keizer
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Idiomatic expressions and anaphoric reference in functional discourse grammar
This paper deals with a special type of anaphoric relation that consists in a reference through/to a part of a fixed idiomatic experience. It is proved that, contrary to what is generally assumed, such references are not necessarily grammatically or ...
Evelien Keizer
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The lexicon in Functional Discourse Grammar: Theory, typology, description
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.
Genee, Inge +2 more
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Systems of TMA and Related Categories in Functional Discourse Grammar: A Brief Overview
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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Lexical competence and Functional Discourse Grammar
<p>This article discusses the role of the lexicon component within Functional Discourse Grammar. It argues that the treatment of lexical meaning in most grammatical models is not adequate and proposes an alternative analysis based on Marconi’s ...
Daniel García Velasco
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The implementation of grammatical functions in Functional Discourse Grammar
<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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Introducing Some Aspects of Functional Discourse Grammar; Some Persian Typological Evidences [PDF]
Functional Discourse Grammar presented by Hengveld and Mackenzei (2008) as one of the newest Functional Grammar. This theory is mainly based on Dick’s Functional Grammar (1970s).
Hamed Mowlaei Kuhbanani +2 more
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Extra-clausal constituents in Functional Discourse Grammar: function and form
This paper presents a first outline of an encompassing account of extra-clausal constituents (ECCs) within the framework of Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG).
R. Giomi, E. Keizer
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