Simon C. Dik 
The Structure of the Clause [PDF ebook] 

Frontmatter – Table of contents – List of tables and figures – Abbreviations used in FG-representations – 1. Methodological preliminaries – 2. Some basic concepts of linguistic theory – 3. Preview of Functional Grammar – 4. The nuclear predication – 5. States of Affairs and semantic functions – 6. On the function and structure of terms – 7. Term operators – 8. Non-verbal predicates – 9. Nuclear, core, and extended predication – 10. Perspectivizing the State of Affairs: Subject and Object assignment – 11. Reconsidering the Semantic Function Hierarchy; Raising; Ergativity – 12. Predication, proposition, clause – 13. Pragmatic functions – 14. Expression rules – 15. The operation of expression rules – 16. Principles of constituent ordering – 17. Constituent ordering: problems and complications – 18. Prosodic features – Backmatter