This book provides ten case studies in Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG), a typologically-oriented theory of the organization of natural languages that has ris

The articles in this volume analyse the noun phrase within the framework of Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG), the successor to Simon C. Dik's Functional Gramm

This textbook explores functional discourse grammar, a recently developed theory of language structure which analyses utterances at the pragmatic, semantic, mor

The volume surveys over a hundred diachronic changes from typologically diverse languages and concludes that the definitional property of meaning change in gram

In grammar design, a basic distinction is made between derivational and modular architectures. This raises the question of which organization of grammar can dea