A New Architecture for Functional Grammar (Functional Grammar Series)

Discourse structure, the generalized parallelism hypothesis, and FG 311

Figure 1. One organization of the MNLU

Figure 2. An alternative organization of the MNLU

M N L U

PRAGMATIC MODULE GRAMMATICAL MODULE

Pragmatic structure

Grammatical

Structure

Expression rules

Syntactic form

M N L U

Syntactic form

SEMANTIC MODULE

GRAMMATICAL MODULE

PRAGMATIC MODULE

Pragmatic

Structure

Semantic structure

Expression rules

Syntactic form