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'''Functional Grammar''' (FG) and '''Functional Discourse Grammar''' (FDG) are [[grammar]] models and theories motivated by [[functional theories of grammar]]. These theories explain how [[Natural language|linguistic]] utterances are shaped, based on the goals and knowledge of natural language users. In doing so, it contrasts with Chomskyan [[transformational grammar]]. Functional Discourse Grammar has been developed as a successor to Functional Grammar, attempting to be more psychologically and pragmatically adequate than Functional Grammar<ref name="Hengeveld2008">{{cite book|first1=Kees|last1=Hengeveld|first2=J. Lachlan|last2=Mackenzie|date=August, 2008|title=Functional Discourse Grammar: A Typologically-Based Theory of Language Structure|___location=Oxford|publisher=Oxford University Press|ISBN=978-0-19-927811-4|url=http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199278114}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|series=Linguistic Insights, Studies in Language and Communication|volume=26|editor-last=Mackenzie, J. Lachlan / Gómez-González, María de los Ángeles|title=Studies in Functional Discourse Grammar|publisher=Peter Lang Publishing Group|date=2005|ISBN=978-3-03910-696-7|url=http://www.peterlang.com/Index.cfm?vID=10696&vLang=E}}</ref>.
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