Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- List of tables and figures -- Abbreviations used in FG-representations -- 1. Methodological preliminaries -- 2. Some basic concepts of linguistic theory -- 3. Preview of Functional Grammar -- 4. The nuclear predication -- 5. States of Affairs and semantic functions -- 6. On the function and structure of terms -- 7. Term operators -- 8. Non-verbal predicates -- 9. Nuclear, core, and extended predication -- 10. Perspectivizing the State of Affairs: Subject and Object assignment -- 11. Reconsidering the Semantic Function Hierarchy; Raising; Ergativity -- 12. Predication, proposition, clause -- 13. Pragmatic functions -- 14. Expression rules -- 15. The operation of expression rules -- 16. Principles of constituent ordering -- 17. Constituent ordering: problems and complications -- 18. Prosodic features -- Backmatter