Appendix C: The ‘rank scale’ debate

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. Acknowledgements v
3. An invitation vii
4. Table of contents ix
5. List of figures xiv
6. Preface xv
7. Preface to the 2010 paperback edition xxv
8. 1 Introduction 1
9. PART 1: PROLEGOMENON TO THE THEORY
10. 2 SFL’s original theory of syntax: Scale and Category Grammar 15
11. 3 The place of syntax in a modern Systemic Functional Grammar 33
12. 4 Halliday’s later changes to the Scale and Category model 45
13. 5 Syntax in a generative systemic functional grammar 77
14. 6 The major concepts of An Introduction to Functional Grammar 95
15. 7 The problem of the representations in IFG (and an alternative approach) 107
16. 8 “Some proposals for systemic syntax” 159
17. PART 2: THE NEW THEORY
18. 9 A theory of syntax potential 171
19. 10 A new theory of instances of syntax: (1) the categories of syntax 187
20. 11 A new theory of instances of syntax: (2) the relationships between ‘categories’ 233
21. 12 Summary, conclusions and prospects 273
22. Appendix A: A fragment of a generative systemic functional grammar 297
23. Appendix B: A summary of English syntax for the text analyst 303
24. Appendix C: The ‘rank scale’ debate 309
25. References 339
26. Index 353