Research work · 2001

Understood Objects in Functional Grammar

Daniel García Velasco, María del Carmen Portero Muñoz

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to give an account of object omission in English within the context of the theory of Functional Grammar (FG). In the first section we discuss the factors that, in one way or another, are relevant to understanding the complex nature of this grammatical phenomenon. In so doing, we review the main aspects of some of the analyses that can be