Functional grammar
# 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.
