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Not only is the clause layered horizontally, it is now also layered verti-

cally, the two layers signifying two different aspects of language: the

interpersonal and the representational. So sentence (14) is represented as

(15):^32

(14) It seems that it is possible that he can cure blindness.

(15) E 1 : [DECL (S) (A) (XI: [seemV (XJ: [ ] (XJ))] (XI))] (E 1 )

(Pres e 1 : [possibleA (ej: [canV cureVinf (xj: p3 (xj))Ag (xk: blindnessN (xk)Go] (ej))Ø] (e 1 ))

Hengeveld (1989) brings his layered structure to full fruition in his arti-

cle “Layers and Operators”. The structure is unchanged from 1988, but

Hengeveld provides a clear explanation of each component of the model

and many examples of various structures. More importantly, he lays out a

method of handling verbal complementation and clause combining.

5.4.6. Functional Grammar in Spain

In 1981 Leocadio Martín Mingorance translated FG 1 into Spanish (Dik

1981b). This led to the establishment of the Spanish FG school, which has

concentrated on lexicology. Martín Mingorance (most recently, 1998) also

proposed a new synthesis, the Functional Lexematic Model, which has

been the basis of the important work of Faber and Mairal Usón (1999) and

others in recent years (see Mairal Usón and Pérez Quintero 2002).

5.5. Summary

We see that FG 1 generated much work and faced many challenges. The

occasion arose to produce a new publication to pull these sometimes-

incompatible threads together.^33 It is to this publication that I now turn.

6. FG 2 and FG 3 - 1989 to 2000

6.1. Introduction

If read in isolation, FG 2 (Dik 1989b) appears to represent a major overhaul

of FG 1 , when actually it mainly incorporates developments of the model

suggested in the preceding years. And for reasons explained below, FG 3