Talk:Functional grammar

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Contributors who know more about this than I do should explain the differences between Dik's functional grammar and Halliday's systemic functional grammar. Wellsoberlin (talk) 21:27, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

I think this article should be renamed "Functional discourse grammar". Tony (talk) 10:54, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Functional Discourse Grammar is an offspring of Functional Grammar, but not the same. Functional Grammar was developed by Simon Dik in the 20th century, whereas Functional Discourse Grammar is a model of the 21st century, developed my Hengeveld and McKenzie. Both modeles are obviously related. The FDG book is just in print now, and hence the theory is not widely known as of now. I think that FDG should be treated in a subsection of FG, since FG is the far more common name. SFG should be treated at Systemic Functional Grammar, but it would indeed be nice to have some page like Function-oriented grammatical theories where RRG, SFG, FG, FDG, CG, (R)CxG etc are compared. Anyone got a good name for such a page? Maybe Functionalism(Grammar)? Jasy jatere (talk) 11:58, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Insufficient

Could somebody traslate the German article for Functional Grammar to English? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.144.2.244 (talk) 14:49, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Merge

I merged the article for the older name Functional Grammar (FG) into the newer name Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG), and redirected Functional grammar to Functional discourse grammar. The information in the article for the older name is now in the History section of the new name. Obankston (talk) 22:12, 12 June 2010 (UTC)