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Crucial Readings in Functional Grammar isan invaluable resource to anyone working in Functional Grammar, student and scholar alike. It contains important articles that have led to new avenues of research in the theory beyond Dik's two-volume Functional Grammar (1997), each concluded with a short paragraph with suggestions for further research. The book also contains an introduction to current Functional Grammar theory by the editors. Crucial Readings is unique in bringing together in one volume the various ideas that complement Dik's canonical presentation of the theory.The editorial contributionsprovide a comprehensive review of Functional Grammar publications.

Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Table of Contents -- List of abbreviations and symbols -- 1. Formal and semantic adjustment of derived constructions / Dik, Simon C. -- 2. Nominalization and valency reduction / Mackenzie, J. Lachlan -- 3. Passive, reflexive, and causative predicate formation in French / Vet, Co -- 4. Predicates and features / Groot, Casper de -- 5. The place of morphology in functional grammar: the case of the Ejagham verb system / Watters, John R. -- 6. Anaphoric agreement in Aleut / Fortescue, Michael -- 7. Term operators / Brown, D. Richard -- 8. On the notion 'relator' and the expression of the genitive relation / Limburg, Machiel J. -- 9. Indirect questions and relators / Kahrel, Peter -- 10 Two types of resultative construction in Basque and their non-aspectual meanings / Shiratsuki, Noriko -- 11. Modality and the models: a problem for functional grammar / Goossens, Louis -- 12. The predicative relatives of French perception verbs / Auwera, Johan van der -- 13. Morphological causatives in Modern Hebrew / Junger, Judith -- References -- Index of authors -- Index of languages and language-families -- Index of subjects

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Word order tendencies in two Prefield subtypes / Rijkhoff, Jan -- The position of the Subject in Rif-Berber / Schryver, Ann de -- Some observations on the order of constituents in Bulgarian / Stanchev, Svillen -- The study of clitics in Functional Grammar / Bubenik, Vit -- Complementizers as P2 fillers / Auwera, Johan van -- VXS en arabe / Moutaouakil, Ahmed -- Purpose clauses in Ancient Greek / Wakker, G.C. -- Pragmatic positions: The case of modifying clauses in Dutch / Schutter, Georges de -- Tails (right-dislocations) as a repair mechanism in English conversation / Geluykens, Ronald -- The pragmatic value of cataphoric relations / Maes, Alfons -- Postverbal Subject pronouns in Polish in the light of topic continuity and the Topic/Focus distinction / Siewierska, Anna -- Discourse functions of predications: The background/foreground distinction and tense and voice in Latin main and subordinate clauses / Bolkestein, A. Machtelt -- References -- Author index -- Language index -- Language index

Morphological and syntactic issues have received relatively little attention in Functional Grammar, due to the fact that this grammatical model, given its functional orientation, was primarily concerned with developing its pragmatic and semantic components. Now that these have been solidly developed, this book turns to the further development of the syntactic and morphological components of the model. Two recent developments receive pride of place: Bakker's Dynamic Expression Model and Hengeveldand Mackenzie's Functional Discourse Grammar. The first model aims at accounting for the complex interactions that one finds in many languages between the sets of expression rules that have to account for form on the one hand and those that establish order on the other. The second model takes a further step by considering morphosyntactic and phonological representations to be part of the underlying structure of the grammar rather than as the output of that grammar, contrary to the original assumptions in FG. The book accordingly contains synopses of these two proposals as well as applications of these to a variety of linguistic phenomena. Further articles provide detailed analyses of a range of semantic and pragmatic categories and their morphosyntactic expression in a wide variety of languages. The articles in this book contain data on some 60 different languages, including focused articles on phenomena in Arabic, Danish, English, Lengua de Señas Española, Mapudungun, Plains Cree, and Tanggu. In all, the contributions to this volume show that the issue of morphosyntactic expression in Functional Grammar is very much alive and moving into promising new directions, while at the same time contributing to a better understanding of a large number of morphosyntactic phenomena in a wide variety of languages.

The present monograph deals with lexical representation and linking within the framework of Functional Grammar. This new format opens new lines of research towards the design of a new linking algorithm in Functional Grammar.

This volume attempts to offer a new architecture for functional grammar, bringing together many contemporary discoveries. In a core article by Kees Hengeveld, a background is given to a dozen contributions by an international array of scholars, each of whom further develops the model.

Functional grammar is a linguistic theory in which language is regarded as a vehicle of communicative interaction. As such, it has a strong pragmatic orientation, and this text presents the results of some recent research into pragmatics within the functional grammar framework.