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