Functional domains of language

functional domain	main areas
substantive notions, denomination	nominal classification, proper names, relationality (kinship), formation and modification of substantive notions
quantification, measure, order	plurality, counting, non-numeral quantification, measurement and collection
reference	individuation, anchorage (incl. deixis), endophora (incl. reference tracking, determination)
possession	possession in reference, possessive predication, possession and participation, past and future possession
predication	existence and presentation, identification, categorization, characterization (property, comparison), state, change of category/property/state; secondary predication
participation	actor and control (causation, actor demotion), undergoer and affectedness (applicative constructions, introversion), indirectus, desideration, experience, peripheral roles
design of situations	holistic vs. analytic representation (ideophones, verb series), temporal design of situations (time stability, telicity, phases of a situation), quality and quantity of situation core (manner, intensification, gradation)
space	position and posture (incl. spatial and gestalt properties of objects), motion, reference points, spatial regions, local relations
time	moment and span, absolute time, temporal relation
modality	obligation, volition, possibility; epistemic evaluation, evidentiality; validation, acceptance, regret
negation	semantic scope of negation, negation and quantification
junction	proposition vs. state-of-affairs, intrinsic relations (content propositions), extrinsic relations (logical relations, concrete relations), pragmatic level of interpropositional relations
discourse structure	information structure (topicalization, presupposition vs. assertion, focusing), emphasis
communicative relations	communication channel, illocution (declaration, question, request and command, hortatory/monitory), speaker's state of mind (incl exclamation); metalinguistic operations (speech reproduction, operations on the code)