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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.
The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of
Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies, which
integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical
linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the
other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting
new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that
contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further
outstanding research in English linguistics. For further
publications in English linguistics see also our Dialects of
English book series. To discuss your book idea or submit a
proposal, please contact Natalie Fecher.
Essentials of Mastering English: A Concise Grammar is both an ideal
companion for undergraduate students wishing to acquire a high
level of grammatical proficiency and a readily accessible reference
work for teachers of English at all levels. It provides an
introduction to basic grammatical terms and to elementary syntactic
description, enabling students to analyse sentences and utterances
down to word level with a specification of both the form and the
function of all constituents.
The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this
rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the
perspective of individual languages, language families, language
groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a
deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to
little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on
long-standing problems in general linguistics.
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 modeling 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. Bache finally examines the
descriptive potential of his model in connection with projection,
conditions, and narration.
Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer
Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfangen des Verlags
von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv
Quellen fur die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche
Forschung zur Verfugung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext
betrachtet werden mussen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor
1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen
Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben.
Sixteen contributions by fellow linguists include papers on the
English progressive; predication and the nominal clause; the use of
mood and modal verbs in Italian and Danish; some Norwegian
discourse particles and their English correspondences; and
tendencies in the syntax of the verb in American and British
English.
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