Abstract
Following Andrews, the term 'grammatical function' is intended to differentiate from 'grammatical relation'. This chapter starts with a discussion of semantic roles and addresses core and oblique functions. In the grammatical system of Prinmi is investigated to explore grammatical relations, if any, which are significant in the language. Finally, the chapter studies pragmatic functions of noun phrase in Prinmi. The two most important semantic functions are Agent and Patient, which are abbreviated as A and P respectively. The morphosyntactic marking, where applicable, for semantic roles is usually carried out by clitic-like postpositions Andrews' distinction between complement and adjunct for obliques is also useful to Prinmi. Prinmi has three specialized markers for pragmatic functions of a noun phrase: ge for signifying a topic, bo for setting up a discourse frame, and ʃjɛ for denoting a focus.Keywords: grammatical function; noun phrase; pragmatic functions; Prinmi; semantic roles
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