An introduction to functional grammar

Cover......Page 1
Book title......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 10
Part I: The Clause......Page 12
1.1 Text and grammar......Page 14
1.2 Phonology and grammar......Page 22
1.3 Basic concepts for the study of language......Page 30
1.4 The location of grammar in language; the role of the corpus......Page 42
2.1 Towards a grammatical analysis......Page 48
2.2 The lexico-grammar cline......Page 54
2.3 Grammaticalization......Page 57
2.4 Grammar and the corpus......Page 59
2.5 Classes and functions......Page 61
2.6 Subject, Actor, Theme......Page 64
2.7 Three lines of meaning in the clause......Page 69
3.1 Theme and Rheme......Page 75
3.2 Group or phrase complexes as Theme; thematic equatives......Page 79
3.3 Theme and mood......Page 82
3.4 Textual, interpersonal and topical Themes......Page 90
3.5 The information unit; Given + New......Page 98
3.6 Given + New and Theme + Rheme......Page 104
3.7 Predicated Themes......Page 106
3.8 Theme in bound, minor and elliptical clauses......Page 109
3.9 Thematic interpretation of a text......Page 111
4.1 The nature of dialogue......Page 117
4.2 The Mood element......Page 122
4.3 Other elements of Mood structure......Page 132
4.4 MOOD as system; further options......Page 145
4.5 Polarity and modality......Page 154
4.6 Absence of elements of the modal structure......Page 162
4.7 Clause as Subject......Page 165
4.8 Texts......Page 169
5.1 Modelling experience of change......Page 179
5.2 Material clauses: processes of doing-and-happening......Page 190
5.3 Mental clauses: processes of sensing......Page 208
5.4 Relational clauses: processes of being and having......Page 221
5.5 Other process types: summary of process types......Page 259
5.6 Circumstantial elements......Page 270
5.7 Transitivity and voice: another interpretation......Page 291
5.8 Text illustrations......Page 314
Part II: Above, Below and Beyond the Clause......Page 318
6.1 Groups and phrases......Page 320
6.2 Nominal group......Page 322
6.3 Verbal group......Page 346
6.4 Adverbial group, conjunction group, preposition group......Page 365
6.5 Prepositional phrase......Page 370
6.6 Word classes and group functions......Page 372
7.1 The notion of ‘clause complex’......Page 374
7.2 Types of relationship between clauses......Page 384
7.3 TAXIS: parataxis and hypotaxis......Page 394
7.4 Elaborating, extending, enhancing: three kinds of expansion......Page 406
7.5 Reports, ideas and facts: three kinds of projection......Page 452
7.6 Clause complex and tone......Page 493
7.7 Texts......Page 495
8.1 Overview of complexing at group or phrase rank......Page 497
8.2 Parataxis: groups and phrases......Page 500
8.3 Hypotaxis: nominal group......Page 504
8.4 Hypotaxis: adverbial group or prepositional phrase......Page 506
8.5 Hypotaxis: verbal group, expansion (1): general......Page 508
8.6 Hypotaxis: verbal group, expansion (2): passives......Page 516
8.7 Hypotaxis: verbal group, expansion (3): causative......Page 520
8.8 Hypotaxis: verbal group, projection......Page 526
8.9 Logical organization: complexes at clause and group or phrase rank, and groups......Page 532
9.1 The concept of text; logogenetic patterns......Page 535
9.2 The lexicogrammatical resources of COHESION......Page 543
9.3 Conjunction......Page 549
9.4 Reference......Page 560
9.5 Ellipsis and substitution......Page 572
9.6 Lexical cohesion......Page 581
9.7 The creation of texture......Page 590
10.1 Lexicogrammar and semantics......Page 597
10.2 Semantic domains......Page 604
10.3 Modality......Page 624
10.4 Interpersonal metaphor: metaphors of mood......Page 637
10.5 Ideational metaphors......Page 647
References......Page 670
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