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2006

The 3rd International Postgraduate Course on Functional Grammar was organized in conjunction with the 12th International Conference on Functional Grammar. The course took place from 17 to 19 July 2006, the Conference from 19 to 22 July 2006. The postgraduate course enabled linguists unfamiliar with the theory to prepare for the conference, but was also open to those not planning to attend it.
The teachers, all active researchers in the field of Functional (Discourse) Grammar, were  Kees Hengeveld, affiliated to the Department of Theoretical Linguistics of the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Lachlan Mackenzie, affiliated to the Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Mike Hannay, affiliated to the Department of English of the Free University Amsterdam, Evelien Keizer, affiliated to the Department of English of the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
After a general introduction, the course focussed on the basic principles of Functional Discourse Grammar. In order to prepare the students for the special conference theme of ICFG12, special attention was paid to complex structures in Grammar and Discourse in Functional (Discourse) Grammar. The course language was English, but daily introductory sessions were offered in (Brazilian) Portuguese.

 

2004

The 2nd International Postgraduate Course on Functional Grammar was organized in conjunction with the 11th International Conference on Functional Grammar. The course took place from 20 to 22 September 2004, the Conference from 22 to 25 September 2004. The postgraduate course enabled linguists unfamiliar with the theory to prepare for the conference, but was also open to those not planning to attend it.
The teachers, all active researchers in the field of Functional (Discourse) Grammar, were Daniel García Velasco , affiliated to the Department of English and French of the University of Oviedo, Spain; Kees Hengeveld affiliated to the Department of Theoretical Linguistics of the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Lachlan Mackenzie, affiliated to the Department of English of the Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands; and Jan Rijkhoff, affiliated to the Department of Linguistics of the University of Ĺarhus, Denmark.
After a general introduction, the course focussed on the basic principles of Functional Discourse Grammar, the latest version of Functional Grammar (see Mackenzie & Gómez-González eds. 2004). In order to prepare the students for the special conference theme of ICFG11, special attention was paid to the analysis of the noun phrase in Functional (Discourse) Grammar. 
 
2002

The 1st International Postgraduate Course on Functional Grammar was organized on the occasion of and in conjunction with the 10th International Conference on Functional Grammar. The Course took place from 17-21 June 2002, the Conference from 26-29 June 2002. The postgraduate course enabled linguists unfamiliar with the theory to prepare for the conference, but was also open to those not planning to attend that conference.
The teachers, all active researchers in the field of Functional Grammar, were Dik Bakker, Casper de Groot and Kees Hengeveld , affiliated to the Department of Theoretical Linguistics of the University of Amsterdam; and Anna Siewierska, affiliated to  the Department of Linguistics of the University of Lancaster and visiting scholar at the Department of Theoretical Linguistics of the University of Amsterdam.
Students were expected to read the following book before the course started:  Dik, Simon C. (1997), The Theory of Functional Grammar. Part 1: The Structure of the Clause. Edited by Kees Hengeveld. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. ISBN 3-11-015403-X.
 

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