title: Functional grammar
text: # Functional grammar
  
  Functional grammar may refer to:
  
  * Functional linguistics, a range of functionally based approaches to linguistics
  * Functional discourse grammar, grammar models developed by Simon C. Dik that explain how utterances are shaped based on the goals of language users
  * Systemic functional grammar, a grammatical description developed by Michael Halliday
  * Danish functional linguistics, a strand of functional linguistics associated with linguists at the University of Copenhagen
  * Lexical functional grammar, a variety of generative grammar initiated by Joan Bresnan and Ronald Kaplan.
  * Role and reference grammar, a model of grammar developed by William Foley and Robert Van Valin, Jr.
  