Foreword

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. About the editors xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. Section 1 ‘Divergence’
7. 1. Finding complementarity in the approaches of M. A. K. Halliday and Robin Fawcett 15
8. 2. Relating form and meaning 38
9. 3. On the abstractness of levels of description in Systemic Functional Linguistics 57
10. 4. Embedding in the Cardiff Grammar: A comparative study 76
11. 5. ‘United but not the same’ 96
12. Section 2 ‘Convergence’
13. 6. From form to meaning in the Cardiff model of language and its use: A functional-syntactic analysis of ‘He has been talking about going to the Grand Canyon with Margaret for many years’ 115
14. 7. On the meaning-form interface of the Cardiff Grammar 135
15. 8. Lexical representation in the Cardiff Grammar: An appraisal 157
16. 9. Referring and the Nominal Group: A closer look at the selector element 174
17. Section 3 ‘Description’
18. 10. Quantifying things: The ‘quantifying modifier’ and its raising construction in Japanese 191
19. 11. Intonation in semantic system networks 215
20. 12. On choosing the Subject Theme 235
21. 13. Negation in Japanese 252
22. 14. An alternative model of the transitivity system of Chinese 269
23. 15. The ideational semantics of the canonical existential clause in English 293
24. Section 4 ‘Towards Consilience’
25. 16. ‘Models – predictions – data: An (un)problematic relationship?’ 313
26. Index 337