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In:Recent Developments in Functional Discourse Grammar
Edited by Evelien Keizer and Hella Olbertz
[Studies in Language Companion Series 205] 2018
► pp. 1–16

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Functional Discourse Grammar

A brief outline

 | University of Vienna
 | University of Amsterdam
Published online: 22 November 2018
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https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.205.01kei
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.A general characterization of the model
  • 3.The Architecture of FDG
    • 3.1Distinctive features and overall organization
    • 3.2Four levels of analysis
    • 3.3Relations between the levels
  • 4.Transparency
  • 5.Language change
  • 6.This volume
  • Note
  • References
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