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Below (abstracts of) papers I wrote concerning linguistics, mainly about Functional Grammar and the achievements in this area ‘avant la lettre’ of a number of missionaries.

• Towards an expanded definition of Focus and Primitives in Functional (Discourse) Grammar

• Functional grammar in the seventeenth century

• Subject, Topic and Perspective in Functional Grammar and in Philippine Missionary Grammar

• Pragmatic and stylistic functions of the passive sentence (under construction)

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