Functional Perspectives on Grammar and Discourse

1. Contributors; 2. Editorial introduction (by Butler, Christopher S.); 3. Publications of Angela Downing; 4. Grammar as an adaptive evolutionary product (by Givon, T.); 5. Towards a cognitive-functional model of text comprehension (by Butler, Christopher S.); 6. Towards an integrational approach in linguistics (by Stoevsky, Andrei); 7. Expressing past habit in English and Swedish: A corpus-based contrastive study (by Altenberg, Bengt); 8. Do cognate and circumstantial complements of intransitive verbs form one 'Range'?: A corpus-based discussion (by Rymen, Kathleen); 9. The unconscious, irresponsible construction in Modern Icelandic (by Bernardez, Enrique); 10. Modelling 'selection' between referents in the English nominal group: An essay in scientific inquiry in linguistics (by Fawcett, Robin P.); 11. Problems in NP structure: An example from British tabloid journalism (by Davies, Eirian C.); 12. Double-possessive nominalizations in English (by Mackenzie, J. Lachlan); 13. Pragmatics, word order and cross-reference: Some issues with pronominal clitics in Bulgarian (by Stanchev, Svilen B.); 14. Patterns of multiple theme and their role in developing English writing skills (by Hannay, Mike); 15. Interactive solution-problems: A set of structures in general and scientific writing (by Jordan, Michael P.); 16. The English Contrastive Discourse Marker instead (by Fraser, Bruce); 17. Global and local attention in task-oriented conversation: An empirical investigation (by Lavid, Julia); 18. Metadiscursive and interpersonal values of pronominal topics in spoken Spanish (by Hidalgo Downing, Raquel); 19. Phatic communion and small talk in fictional dialogues (by Urbanova, Ludmila); 20. Mister so-called X: Discourse functions and subjectification of so-called (by Vandelanotte, Lieven); 21. 'Sorry to muddy the waters': Accounting for speech act formulae and formulaic variation in a systemic functional model of language (by Tucker, Gordon H.); 22. The discourse functionality of adjectival and adverbial epistemic expressions: Evidence from present-day English (by Simon-Vandenbergen, Anne-Marie); 23. Modality across World Englishes: The modals and semi-modals of prediction and volition (by Collins, Peter); 24. Name index; 25. Subject index; 26. Language index