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The article is a Forschungsbericht, an overview of functional linguistics. The reader's attention is directed towards two highly elaborated and widely known schools of functional linguistics. One is the systemic-functional grammar of M. A. K. Halliday, the other one is the functional-typological grammar of Talmy Givon. The paper concentrates on the basic ideas and methods, and also on the structuring of grammar, for a better understanding of these linguistic theories and descriptive methodologies in Hungarian linguistics.