This book is the first comprehensive presentation of Functional Discourse Grammar. The authors set out its nature and origins and show how it relates to contemporary linguistic theory. They demonstrate and test its explanatory power and descriptive utility against linguistic facts from over 150 languages across a full range of linguistic families.

1. Introduction; 2. The Interpersonal Level; 3. The Representational Level; 4. The Morphosyntactic Level; 5. The Phonological Level; References; Language Index; Name Index; Subject Index

Kees Hengeveld, University of Amsterdam, J. Lachlan Mackenzie, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam