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

This is the first textbook on Functional Discourse Grammar, a recently developed theory of language structure which analyses utterances at the pragmatic, semant

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

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

This volume presents a collection of papers using the theory of Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG) to analyse and explain a number of specific constructions or