Functional Discourse Grammar

FDG2026

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Programme

WEDNESDAY 8 JULY
09:30–10:00	Opening Session
10:00–10:40	The unique selling points of FDG	Mackenzie
10:40–11:20	Reconsidering Rhetorical Relations	Giomi, Hengeveld, Keizer
	Coffee break
12:00–12:40	Layering within the Referential Subact in FDG	Hengeveld
12:40–13:20	Modelling Evaluative Meaning and Stance in FDG	Beldjenna & Hadjemi
13:20–14:00	Morphology in FDG	Schwaiger
	Lunch break
16:30–17:10	The Question of Questions	Mustafa & Mittendorfer
17:10–17:50	English evidential adverbs	Lois Kemp
THURSDAY 9 JULY
10:00–10:40	Intonation of clause combining	Mittendorfer & ten Wolde
10:40–11:20	Ghost pronouns	Krzyżyńska
	Coffee break
12:00–12:40	Non-Prototypical ningún	Moreno Rios
12:40–13:20	Concessive connectives in Spanish	Beatriz Parra
13:20–14:00	Semi-insubordinate que-constructions	Hirata-Vale
	Lunch break
16:30–17:10	English pseudo-partitives	Keizer
17:10–17:50	Comparatives	Berner
	Conference excursion
FRIDAY 10 JULY
10:00–10:40	Causation Adjuncts	Pace
10:40–11:20	An FDG analysis of frustrativity …	Souza
	Coffee break
12:00–12:40	Nominal TAME markers	Serafim
12:40–13:20	Adverbs in Caboverdean	Favaro
13:20–14:00	The ba-construction in Mandarin	Zhen Wu
	Lunch break
16:30–17:10	Large Language Models are linguistic encoders	García Velasco
	Closing session
	Conference dinner

Titles of papers.

Beldjenna, Amel & Hadjemi, Meriem: Modelling Evaluative Meaning and Stance in Functional Discourse Grammar: An Interface-Based Account
Berner, Felix: Comparative: adjective types, dependency relations and the synthetic problem
Favaro, Marco: Toward a Description of Adverbs in Caboverdean: An FDG Account
García Velasco, Daniel: Large Language Models are linguistic encoders
Giomi, Riccardo & Hengeveld, Kees & Keizer, Evelien: Reconsidering Rhetorical Relations
Hengeveld, Kees: Layering within the Referential Subact in Functional Discourse Grammar
Hirata-Vale, Flávia M.: Semi-insubordinate que-constructions: an FDG approach
Keizer, Evelien: A Functional Discourse Grammar account of English pseudo-partitives
Kemp, Lois: English evidential adverbs in complement clauses of lower layer complement-taking predicates.
Krzyżyńska, Martyna: Ghost pronouns: A Functional Discourse Grammar account of pronominal ellipsis in English adversative clauses
Mackenzie, Lachlan: The unique selling points of FDG
Mittendorfer, Matthias & ten Wolde, Elnora: The intonation of clause combining: the case of so (that) purpose and result adverbials
Moreno Rios, Deliana: Explaining the Non-Prototypical Use of ningún in Negative Constructions in Spanish from the Perspective of Functional Discourse Grammar
Mustafa, Ozan & Mittendorfer, Matthias: The Question of Questions - Rethinking interrogatives in FDG
Pace, Gianluca: The Marking of Causation Adjuncts Follows the Aristotelian Categories of Cause
Parra, Beatriz: The grammaticalization of concessive connectives in Peninsular Spanish according to Functional Discourse Grammar
Schwaiger, Thomas: Morphology in Functional Discourse Grammar: A (book) proposal
Serafim, Monielly: Nominal TAME markers in Functional Discourse Grammar
Souza, Edson: An FDG analysis of frustrativity and its scope relations with other linguistic categories in South American indigenous languages
Zhen Wu: The ba-construction in Mandarin