A theory of syntax for systemic functional linguistics
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A theory of syntax for systemic functional linguistics
(Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science, ser. 4 . Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 206)
J. Benjamins, c2000
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- : eur
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-351) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book describes and evaluates alternative approaches within Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) to representing the structure of language at the level of form. It assumes no prior knowledge of SFL, and can therefore be read as an introduction to current issues within the theory. It will interest any linguist who takes a functional approach to understanding language.
Part 1 summarizes the major developments in the forty years of SFL's history, including alternative approaches within Halliday's own writings and the emergence of the "Cardiff Grammar" as an alternative to the "Sydney Grammar". It questions the theoretical status of the 'multiple structure' representations in Halliday's influential Introduction to Functional Grammar (1994), demonstrating that Halliday's model additionally needs an integrating syntax such as that described in Part 2.
Part 2 specifies and discusses the set of 'categories' and 'relationships' that are needed in a theory of syntax for a modern, computer-implementable systemic functional grammar. The theoretical concepts are exemplified at every point, usually from English but occasionally from other languages.
The book is both a critique of Halliday's current theory of syntax and the presentation of an alternative version of SFL that is equally systemic and equally functional.
Table of Contents
- 1. Acknowledgements
- 2. An invitation
- 3. List of figures
- 4. Preface
- 5. Preface to the 2010 paperback edition
- 6. 1 Introduction
- 7. PART 1: PROLEGOMENON TO THE THEORY
- 8. 2 SFL's original theory of syntax: Scale and Category Grammar
- 9. 3 The place of syntax in a modern Systemic Functional Grammar
- 10. 4 Halliday's later changes to the Scale and Category model
- 11. 5 Syntax in a generative systemic functional grammar
- 12. 6 The major concepts of An Introduction to Functional Grammar
- 13. 7 The problem of the representations in IFG (and an alternative approach)
- 14. 8 "Some proposals for systemic syntax"
- 15. PART 2: THE NEW THEORY
- 16. 9 A theory of syntax potential
- 17. 10 A new theory of instances of syntax: (1) the categories of syntax
- 18. 11 A new theory of instances of syntax: (2) the relationships between 'categories'
- 19. 12 Summary, conclusions and prospects
- 20. Appendix A: A fragment of a generative systemic functional grammar
- 21. Appendix B: A summary of English syntax for the text analyst
- 22. Appendix C: The 'rank scale' debate
- 23. References
- 24. Index
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