These theories explain how linguistic utterances are shaped, based on the goals and knowledge of natural language users.
The latest standard version under the original name is laid out in the 1997 edition,[6] published shortly after Dik's death.
The latest version features the expansion of the model with a pragmatic/interpersonal module by Kees Hengeveld and Lachlan Mackenzie.
Functional discourse grammar explains the phonology, morphosyntax, pragmatics and semantics in one linguistic theory.
Similar analysis, decomposing the utterance into progressively smaller units, is possible at the other levels of the grammatical component.