Functional Discourse Grammar
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loginAt the Ninth International Conference on Functional Grammar (ICFG9), heldin Madrid in September2000, Kees Hengeveld proposed the idea of a Func-tional Discourse Grammar. At the time it was conceived of as a revised versionof Functional Grammar (FG; Dik1997a,1997b), a theory of the organizationof natural languages developed by the late Simon C. Dik and his colleaguesfrom1978onwards, the year in which the first book bearing the titleFunctionalGrammarappeared (Dik1978). The addition of the word Discourse in thedenomination of the model was meant to reflect the awareness that the impactof discourse features on linguistic form should be given greater prominence inthe theory. A number of the features of FDG as presented in this book werealready present in Hengeveld’s (2000) presentation, notably: the distinctionbetween an interpersonal, a representational, and a morphosyntactic level ofanalysis, all of them with hierarchical layering; the actional status of ascriptionand reference; the top-down operation of the model; the interaction of thegrammatical component with the conceptual and contextual components;and the analysis of reflexive language use.
