A New Architecture for Functional Grammar (Functional Grammar Series)

336 Dik Bakker and Anna Siewierska

as well handle a word-based approach which has the inflected forms in the
lexicon.
This should serve for a brief overview of the dynamic expression com-
ponent. In Section 4 we will see to what extent it has to be adapted to fit
the multi-level FDG model.

1 10 11 14 15 20

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/those/ /are/

/girl/ /s/ /smart/

Figure 3. Full tree expansion

3. Linguistic modelling and FDG

When discussing a model in linguistics, the central – indeed the first –
question is what is it that we are modelling. In general, a model seeks to
give an operational, explicit and non-ambiguous version of a theory. It is
through a model that a theory may be subjected to experimentation and
testing. For the present discussion, we will distinguish between two types
of linguistic models: the grammar model and the model of the language

1: SENTENCE

2:P1 7:VFIN 9:MAINPRED

5:NOUN 6:NUMSFX 11:ADJECTIVE

3:DET 4:NOMHEA 8:VERBFORM 10:ADJHEAD