Studies in Functional Discourse Grammar

The Editors: Lachlan Mackenzie, born in Scotland, was Professor of English Language at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is now a Consultant in Linguistics in Lisbon and publishes widely in Functional Grammar. He recently co-edited A New Architecture for Functional Grammar (2004) and Crucial Readings in Functional Grammar (2005).María de los Ángeles Gómez-González is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Santiago de Compostela. She is leader of the SCIMITAR Research Group and publishes extensively in functional linguistics. She is co-editor of The Dynamics of Language Use (2005) and author of The Theme – Topic Interface (2001).

• Contents: Kees Hengeveld/J. Lachlan Mackenzie: Interpersonal Functions, Representational Categories, and Syntactic Templates in Functional Discourse Grammar – Francis Cornish: Null Complements, Event Structure, Predication and Anaphora: A Functional Discourse Grammar Account – Carlos Inchaurralde: Some Considerations on the Role of Cognition for Text Structuring, Lexical Structure and the Handling of Communicative Parameters in a Functional Discourse Grammar Framework – Suzanne Dikker/Eva van Lier: The Interplay between Syntactic and Conceptual Information: Agreement Domains in FDG – Christopher S. Butler/Francisco Gonzálvez-García: Situating FDG in Functional-Cognitive Space: An Initial Study – Mike Hannay/Evelien Keizer: A Discourse Treatment of English Non-Restrictive Nominal Appositions in Functional Discourse Grammar – Arsenio Jesús Moya Guijarro: The Assignment of Topical Status in FDG: A Textual Analysis – María de los Ángeles Gómez-González/Maite Taboada: Coherence Relations in Functional Discourse Grammar.