Functional grammar

Functional grammar may refer to:

  • Functional linguistics, a range of functionally based approaches to linguistics
  • Functional discourse grammar, grammar models developed by Simon C. Dik that explain how utterances are shaped based on the goals of language users
  • Systemic functional grammar, a grammatical description developed by Michael Halliday
  • Danish functional linguistics, a strand of functional linguistics associated with linguists at the University of Copenhagen
  • Lexical functional grammar, a variety of generative grammar initiated by Joan Bresnan and Ronald Kaplan.
  • Role and reference grammar, a model of grammar developed by William Foley and Robert Van Valin, Jr.
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