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Functional Discourse Grammar

2006
AbstractThis chapter introduces Functional Discourse Grammar, a typologically based model of language structure, and is organized as follows. Section 15.2 provides a general outline of the model and its place as the grammatical component of a wide theory of verbal interaction.
Hengeveld, K., Lachlan Mackenzie, J.
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Casebook in Functional Discourse Grammar

2013
This book provides ten case studies in Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG), a typologically-oriented theory of the organization of natural languages that has risen to prominence in recent years. The authors, all committed practitioners of FDG, include Kees Hengeveld, the intellectual father of the theory, who shows how it offers a radically new approach
Mackenzie, J.L., Olbertz, H.
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Functional Discourse Grammar: pragmatic aspects

2009
This chapter introduces Functional Discourse Grammar, focusing on the way in which this model is capable of accounting for the grammatical encoding of pragmatic distinctions and for the typological variation found in this area of grammar.
Hannay, M., Hengeveld, K.
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Derivational morphology in Functional Discourse Grammar

2014
The aim of this paper is to provide a general overview of derivational morphology in Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG) as presented in Hengeveld and Mackenzie (2008). The paper begins with a brief description of the model with special reference to those properties which are relevant in the characterization of derivational processes; it also discusses ...
Daniel García Velasco, Evelien Keizer
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English prepositions in Functional Discourse Grammar

Functions of Language, 2008
Adpositions have always been problematic in terms of analysis and representation: should they be regarded as lexical elements, with an argument structure, or as semantically empty grammatical elements, i.e. as operators or functions? Or could it be that some adpositions are lexical and others grammatical, or even that one and the same adposition can be
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Epilogue: dynamic morphosyntax in Functional Discourse Grammar

Language Sciences, 2012
This epilogue addresses the most important topics and challenges for the MorphosyntacticLevel in Functional Discourse Grammar that have been raised in the articles in this SpecialIssue. We begin by exploring the differences between the Morphosyntactic Level in FDGand the treatment of morphosyntactic phenomena in other linguistic frameworks.
García Velasco, D., Hengeveld, K., Mackenzie, J.L.   +2 more
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A Functional Discourse Grammar Theory of Grammaticalization

, 2023
R. Giomi
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Derivation in Functional Discourse Grammar: Some challenges and implications

Word Structure, 2018
One distinctive feature of Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG) is that it distinguishes two types of derivational processes: Lexical derivation, which takes place in the lexicon, and syntactic derivation, which takes place in the grammar. The aim of this paper is to consider some of the implications of this approach by addressing three major issues: i)
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Comment clauses, Functional Discourse Grammar and the grammar-discourse interface

2004
discourse, grammar ...
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Meaning-to-form mismatches in Functional Discourse Grammar and Systemic Functional Grammar: A case study of the English discourse connective however

Interfaces in Functional Discourse Grammar, 2021
Matthias Klumm
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