This is the first textbook on Functional Discourse Grammar, a recently developed theory of language structure which analyses utterances at the pragmatic, semant
This is the first comprehensive presentation of Functional Discourse Grammar. The authors set out its nature and origins and show how it relates to contemporary
This collection presents a number of studies in the lexico-grammar of English which focus on the one hand on close reading of language in context and on the oth
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 volume surveys over a hundred diachronic changes from typologically diverse languages and concludes that the definitional property of meaning change in gram