Function and expression in functional grammar

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This collection explores various aspects of Functional Grammar, addressing the decomposition of lexical knowledge and its implications. It examines semantic functions and reconsiders definitions of meaning, alongside discussions on transitivity and the treatment of prototypicality. Theories of grammatical relations are presented, including a valence-based approach and the study of ergativity. The book revisits object assignment in Croatian and analyzes paradigmatic relations in Danish predicates. It also delves into the interplay of speech acts and information structure, illustrated through case studies in Ancient Greek warfare and Hebrew-Aramaic constituent ordering. Contributions further explore Dutch subordinators, English dialects, and auxiliary verbs in Arabic, alongside term-to-phrase mapping rules. The generation of English temporal satellite terms and special utterance types in Functional Grammar are also discussed. Additional topics include a functional typology of speech reports, computational descriptions of verbal complexes in English and Latin, and insights into grammar writing through Prolog for Hungarian. The collection concludes with formal and computational aspects of the Functional Grammar machine model, providing a comprehensive overview of contemporary research in this field.