English Tense and Aspect in Halliday's Systemic Functional Grammar: A Critical Appraisal and an Alternative

by Carl Bache

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1845533542

ISBN13:9781845533540

Release Date:January 2009

Publisher:Equinox Publishing

Length:238 Pages

Weight:0.79 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"

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