Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG) assumes a strict separation between representational and interpersonal meaning, which are captured in independent levels within the grammar, and utterance meaning, which arises in contexts of language use. This article argues that this division of labour is problematic for the treatment of modifiers in the noun phrase (non-subsective adjectives in particular), which induce semantic changes in the designation of the noun they modify. It is further claimed that the view of semantics in the model should pivot around a weak interpretation of the notion of compositionality, which allows the modulation of linguistic meaning in context in the dynamic construction of term structures. This is shown to be compatible with the basic tenets of functional linguistics that FDG endorses and very much in line with the contextualist tradition that treats linguistic expressions as propositionally underspecified units which can be truth-conditionally enriched in actual use. The article shows that only minor modifications are necessary in the model, which basically amount to increasing the functional role of the Contextualizer.

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功能话语语法 (FDG) 假定表征意义和人际意义之间存在严格的分离，表达意义和人际意义在语法中的独立级别中捕获，而话语意义则出现在语言使用的上下文中。本文认为，这种分工对于名词短语（尤其是非从属形容词）中修饰语的处理存在问题，这会导致它们修饰的名词名称发生语义变化。进一步声称，模型中的语义观点应该围绕对组合性概念的弱解释，这允许在术语结构的动态构建中调整上下文中的语言意义。这被证明与 FDG 认可的功能语言学的基本原则相一致，并且非常符合将语言表达视为命题未指定单位的语境主义传统，这些单位可以在实际使用中有条件地丰富。文章表明，只需对模型进行少量修改，这基本上相当于增加了 Contextualizer 的功能作用。