Functional Perspectives on Grammar and Discourse -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Photograph -- Table of contents -- Contributors -- Editorial introduction -- Publications of Angela Downing -- Grammar as an adaptive evolutionary product -- Towards a cognitive-functional model of text comprehension -- Towards an integrational approachin linguistics -- Expressing past habit in English and Swedish: A corpus-based contrastive study -- Do cognate and circumstantial complements of intransitive verbs form one 'Range'?: A corpus-based discussion -- The unconscious, irresponsible construction in Modern Icelandic -- Modelling 'selection' between referents in the English nominal group. An essay in scientific inquiry in linguistics -- Problems in NP structure: An example from British tabloid journalism -- Double-possessive nominalizations in English -- Pragmatics, word order and cross-reference. Some issues with pronominal clitics in Bulgarian -- Patterns of multiple theme and their role in developing English writing skills -- Interactive solution-problems: A set of structures in general and scientific writing -- The English Contrastive Discourse Marker instead -- Global and local attention in task-oriented conversation: An empirical investigation -- Metadiscursive and interpersonal values of pronominal topics in spoken Spanish -- Phatic communion and small talk in fictional dialogues -- Mister so-called X: Discourse functions and subjectification of so-called -- 'Sorry to muddy the waters': Accounting for speech act formulae and formulaic variation in a systemic functional model of language -- The discourse functionality of adjectival and adverbial epistemic expressions: Evidence from present-day English -- Modality across World Englishes: The modals and semi-modals of prediction and volition -- Name index -- Subject index -- Language index.

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