Functional Discourse Grammar

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Published: 08-05-2012

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Kees Hengeveld
Universiteit van Amsterdam
Netherlands
J. Lachlan Mackenzie
ILTEC, Lisboa Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Netherlands
Vol 17 (2011), Presentation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15304/m.v17i0.205
Submitted: 08-05-2012 Accepted: 08-05-2012 Published: 08-05-2012
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Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG) is a typologically based structural-functional theory of language. It has a top-down organization to achieve psychological adequacy, and takes the Discourse Act as its basic unit of analysis to achieve pragmatic adequacy. Although itself strictly a model of grammar, FDG is designed to interact with Conceptual, Contextual, and Output Compo-nents, so as to enhance its compatibility with a wider theory of verbal interaction.

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Functionalism, language typology, discourse act, top-down architecture, pragmatics, semantics, syntax, morphology, phonology
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