Functional domains of language
 #functional domainmain areas
1Substantive notions and denominationnominal classification, onomastics, relationality, formation and modification of substantive notions
2Quantification, measure, and orderingplurality, counting, non-numeral quantification, measurement and collection
3Referenceanchorage (incl. deixis), individuation, accessibility and phora (incl. reference tracking), demarcation of referential expression (incl. determination)
4Situationtypes of situation, holistic vs. analytic representation (ideophones, verb series), temporal design of situation core (time stability, phases and boundaries), quality and quantity of situation core (manner, intensification, gradation)
5Predicationtypes and strategies of predication, existence, presentation, equation, categorization, characterization (property, comparison), stative predication, change of category and quality; secondary predication
6Possessionpossession in reference, possessive predication, possession and participation, past and future possession
7Participationsemantic roles, hierarchy of syntactic functions, actor and control (causation, actor demotion), undergoer and affectedness (applicative constructions, introversion), indirectus, experience (desideration, perception, feeling), theme, peripheral roles, meteorological ambience
8Spacespatial reference points, spatial regions, spatial distance, rest (posture, location), motion, local relations
9Timetemporal reference points (moment and span), temporal relations (simultaneity, succession)
10Modalityobligation, possibility, volition; validation, epistemics, evidentiality, evaluative modality (acceptance, regret)
11Negationsemantic scope of negation, negated coordination, negation and quantification, negation of notions
12Junctionproposition vs. state-of-affairs, intrinsic relations (content propositions), extrinsic relations (logical relations, concrete relations)
13Discourse structurethematic structure articulation, activation of referent (topicalization, reuse), focusing, emphasis, thetic statement
14Communicative relationscommunication channel, politeness and etiquette, illocution (declaration, denial and contradiction, exchange of information, directive illocution, offer and acceptance, excuse and forgiveness, good wishes and curses), exclamation; metalinguistic operations