Functional domains
Functional domain |
Main areas |
Apprehension and
nomination |
Categorization systems, conceptual types |
Concept modification |
Attribution, apposition |
Quantification |
Quantification in reference, quantification in predication |
Reference |
Determination (incl. deixis), reference tracking |
possession |
Possession in reference, possessive predication,
possession and participation |
Space construction |
Orientation points, local relations, spatial regions, spatial
and gestalt properties of objects |
Predication |
Characterization, existence/placement, participation |
Design of situations |
Aspectuality, classes of situations, modification of
situations |
Temporal orientation |
Absolute time, temporal relation |
Illocution and modality |
Declaration, question, exclamation, request and
command, hortatory, monitory, obligation, volition,
possibility, evidential, shading |
Contrasting |
Negation, comparison, gradation |
Nexion |
Semantic coordination, semantic subordination |
Articulation of discourse |
Discourse structure, Functional Sentence Perspective |