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Linguists honor Michael Halliday, with papers organized in relation to sections of his An Introduction to Functional Grammar, applying his principles to languages other than English. Part I contains sections on textual, interpersonal, and experiential meaning and form. Part II looks at time and ten
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Introduction
PART I: THE CLAUSE. A: TEXTUAL MEANING AND FORM
What is theme?- a(nother) personal view
Experiential Enhanced Theme in English
Theme and Information until Shakespeare
B: INTERPERSONAL MEANING AND FORM
On the Concept of an Interpersonal Metafunction in English
Modality and Modulation in Chinese
Amplification as a Grammatical Prosody: Attitudinal Modification in the Nominal Group
C: EXPERIENTIAL MEANING AND FORM
Transitivity in Tagalog: a Functional Interpretation
A Systemic Functional Approach to Complementation in English
Turning Grammar on Itself: Identifying Clauses in Linguistic Discourse
Attribution and Identification in Gooniyandi
PART II: BELOW THE CLAUSE A: TIME AND TENSE
Tense in English Seen Through Systemic-Functional Theory
Towards a Systemic Approach to Tense and Aspect in Polish
Discourse-Pragmatic Distinctions of the Past and Present in English and Spanish
B: LEXIS AND THE NOMINAL GROUP
Cultural Classification and System Networks: A Systemic Functional Approach to Lexical Semantics
'NGp of NGp' Constructions: a Functional-Structural Study
PART III: ABOVE THE CLAUSE
The Development of the Concept of Cohesive Harmony
PART IV: ACROSS LANGUAGES
A Fragment of a Multilingual Transfer Component and its Relation to Discourse Knowledge
Author Index
Subject Index
About the author
Robin P. Fawcett is Research Professor in Linguistics and Director of the Computational Linguistics Unit at the Cardiff School of English, Communication and Philosophy, Cardiff University.Guowen Huang is Professor at City University of Macau, Macau SAR, China. He is the Honorary Chair of CAoE and the regional representative of IEA. His recent research interests include discourse analysis, functional linguistics, applied linguistics, ecolinguistics, and translation.
