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Introduction to English Sentence Structure - Clauses, Markers, Missing Elements (Paperback, New)
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Introduction to English Sentence Structure - Clauses, Markers, Missing Elements (Paperback, New)
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An Introduction to English Sentence Structure puts the study of
English sentences into the meaningful perspective provided by the
broad essentials of functionalism. The book starts from the premise
that the structure of language reflects the structure of events in
everyday experience. By contrast, grammars that are more structural
in nature often begin with gross facts about language structure,
such as the observation that clauses can be divided into subjects
and predicates. The book's premise reflects the fundamental
Hallidayan principle that language simultaneously codes for three
dimensions of structure: clause as representation, clause as
exchange, and clause as message. This approach has the effect of
situating the study of language in the student's familiar world of
ideas, relationships, and discourses. The book blends insights from
three prominent modern schools of grammatical thought
(functionalism, structuralism, and generativism) using
functionalism as the philosophical and organizational motif. The
book focuses on the representational function of language,
encouraging students to use their knowledge of the way the world
works in order to understand how language works. The approach taken
is hybrid: It assumes that form matters, and in this sense it is
structural. It also assumes that forms follows function, and in
this sense it is functional. As its subtitle suggests, the book is
concerned with the argument structure of clauses, the boundary
markers of clause combinations, and the syntactic and experiential
resources that permit language users to supply the content of empty
categories, which are the missing elements.
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