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English Tense and Aspect in Halliday's Systemic Functional Grammar - A Critical Appraisal and an Alternative (Hardcover, New)
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English Tense and Aspect in Halliday's Systemic Functional Grammar - A Critical Appraisal and an Alternative (Hardcover, New)
Series: Discussions in Functional Approaches to Language
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This book is aimed at fellow practitioners and researchers in
functional linguistics. It offers a friendly but critical appraisal
of a major component of the 'standard' version of SFL, i.e. the
account given by Halliday and Matthiessen of tense and aspect in
English. Supporting his criticisms with evidence from a project in
corpus linguistics, Bache suggests that this account fails in
several ways to satisfy accepted functionalist criteria, and hence
needs revising and extending. After surveying alternative
functionalist approaches to modelling time and tense in English
(including Fawcett's Cardiff school approach and Harder's
instructional-semantic approach), and after presenting a number of
principles of category description, Bache goes on to offer an
alternative SFL account of this area of grammar. In Bache's model,
the focus is on the speaker's communicative motivation for choosing
particular verb forms. The relevant choice relations are seen to
draw on metafunctionally diverse resources, such as tense, action,
aspect and other domains. The basically univariate, serial
structure of the verbal group is accordingly enriched with certain
characteristics associated with multivariate structures, and the
idea of recursion is abandoned. Finally, Bache examines the
descriptive potential of his model in connection with projection,
conditions, and narration.
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