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 phenomena (external possessor contructions and binominal constructions, negation, modification, modality, polysynthesis and transparency) from different perspectives, language-specific, comparative and typological. In addition to applying the theory to the topics in question, these papers aim to contribute to the further development of the theory by modifying and extending it on the basis of new linguistic evidence from a range of languages, thus providing the latest state-of-the-art in FDG. The volume as a whole, however, does more than this, as separately and together the papers collected here aim to demonstrate how FDG, with its unique architecture, can provide new insights into a number of issues and phenomena that are currently of interest to theoretical linguists in general.

• Recent Developments in Functional Discourse Grammar
• Editorial page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of contents
• Abbreviations
  • Non-standard abbreviations used in glosses
  • Abbreviations used in representations
  • Other abbreviations
• Functional Discourse Grammar: A brief outline
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. A general characterization of the model
  • 3. The Architecture of FDG
  • 4. Transparency
  • 5. Language change
  • 6. This volume
  • References
• Negation in Functional Discourse Grammar
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Existing treatments of negation
  • 3. The Representational Level
  • 4. Negation at the Interpersonal Level
  • 5. Double occurrences of negation
  • 6. Conclusion
  • References
• Interpersonal adverbs in FDG: The case of frankly
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Interpersonal vs. representational adverbs in FDG
  • 3. Interpersonal modifiers: Some previous accounts
  • 4. Adverbs in FDG: Modifiers vs Discourse Acts
  • 5. Case study: Frankly
  • 6. Conclusion
  • References
  • Corpora
• External possessor constructions and Cree relational inflection compared
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The relational inflection
  • 3. External possessor constructions (EPCs)
  • 4. Pragmatic similarities between EPCs and the relational
  • 5. Syntactic similarities between EPCs and the relational
  • 6. Syntactic differences between EPCs and the relational
  • 7. Interpretation of EPCs and relational within FDG
  • 8. Conclusions
  • References
• On objective and subjective epistemic modality again: Evidence from Portuguese and Spanish modal auxiliaries
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Objective vs. subjective epistemic modality: Definition and preliminary criteria
  • 3. Which criteria are applicable to Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish epistemic modals?
  • 4. Objective and subjective modals in Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish
  • 5. Subjective epistemic modality and inferential evidentiality
  • 6. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Corpora
• Premodification in evaluative of-binominal noun phrases: An FDG vs a zone-based account
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Theoretical models
  • 3. The evaluative of-binominal family
  • 4. The analysis
  • 5. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Corpora
• Subject expression in Brazilian Portuguese
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Subject expression in Romance languages
  • 3. Transparency and opacity
  • 4. Data and results
  • 5. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Corpora
• Measuring polysynthesis: A Functional Discourse Grammar approach
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Features of polysynthesis
  • 3. The Functional Discourse Grammar approach to polysynthesis
  • 4. A new approach to polysynthesis
  • 5. Discussion and conclusion
  • References
• Language index
• Name index
• Subject index