caa a22 4500 386328358 CHVBK 20180307111701.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198903 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0022226700012123 doi S0022226700012123 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0022226700012123 Hengeveld Kees Institute for General Linguistics, University of Amsterdam Layers and operators in Functional Grammar [Elektronische Daten] [Kees Hengeveld] I have argued elsewhere (Hengeveld, 1987b) that for a proper treatment of modality the clause model used in Functional Grammar (Dik, 1978, 1980) should be adapted in such a way that a number of different layers can be distinguished. My main argument there was that predications, used in Functional Grammar to represent linguistic expressions, have two different functions: a DESCRIPTIVE function and a CONTENT function. A predication not only gives a description of the external situation the speaker refers to within his speech act, it also represents the prepositional content or message unit processed within that speech act. Subjective and evidential modalities, which express a propositional attitude, should take a predication in its contentrepresenting function in their scope, whereas objective modalities, i.e. those modalities that are concerned with the actuality status of a State of Affairs (SoA), should take a predication in its SoA-designating function in their scope. A clause model should therefore be able to distinguish between these two functions of predications. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Journal of Linguistics Cambridge University Press 25/1(1989-03), 127-157 0022-2267 25:1<127 1989 25 LIN https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226700012123 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226700012123 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Hengeveld Kees Institute for General Linguistics, University of Amsterdam NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Linguistics Cambridge University Press 25/1(1989-03), 127-157 0022-2267 25:1<127 1989 25 LIN CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge