A group at the University of Sydney, led by Christian Matthiessen, are currently developing an SFG-based approach to multilingual generation. They have deliberately chosen to work with three languages - English, Chinese and Japanese - from three different language families, in order to establish a sound theoretical basis and methodology for the research, without taking advantage of the structural similarities between related languages. Following the functional approach of SFG, the project is based on identifying functional commonality across languages, rather than structural commonality. The research includes work on grammar sharing in SFG.