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One of the insightful basic ideas advocated in Rijkhoff’s work on the NP is the one, which can be referred to as the ‘Parallelism Hypothesis’. According to this hypothesis, the underlying representation of the NP is also a layered structure containing the same three layers distinguished in the Predication part of the clause representational level. Within the Functional Discourse Grammar framework, Hengeveld pushes the notion of parallelism a step foreward in rightly pointing out that this notion holds not only at the representational level but also at the interpersonal level. Our aim in this paper is two-fold: First, we will examine some facts from Arabic (assumed to be one of the ‘interpersonally rich’ languages) which provide further evidence for Hengeveld’s claim and strongly support the assumption that the NP exhibits, like the Clause, a full-fledged interpersonal level. Second, we will discuss the possibilities that the Functional Discourse Grammar framework, incorporating Rijkhoff’s proposal, offers to account for the Clause-NP parallelism, which will be assumed to hold at the underlying interpersonal and representational levels and to be more or less reflected at the structural level.
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