On Grammar Volume 1

by Halliday, M.A.K.; Webster, Jonathan J.

• ISBN13: 9780826449443
• ISBN10: 0826449441
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-09-19
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

For nearly half a century, Professor M. A. K. Halliday has been enriching the discipline of linguistics with his keen insights into the social semiotic phenomenon we call language. This ten volume series presents the seminal works of Professor Halliday.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: a personal perspective	p. 1
Some aspects of systematic description and comparison in grammatical analysis	p. 21
Categories of the theory of grammar	p. 37
Class in relation to the axes of chain and choice in language	p. 95
Some notes on 'deep' grammar	p. 106
The concept of rank: a reply	p. 118
Appendix to Section One	p. 127
Lexis as a linguistic level	p. 158
Language structure and language function	p. 173
Modes of meaning and modes of expression: types of grammatical structure and their determination by different semantic functions	p. 196
Text semantics and clause grammar: how is a text like a clause?	p. 219
Dimensions of discourse analysis: grammar	p. 261
On the ineffability of grammatical categories	p. 291
Spoken and written modes of meaning	p. 323
How do you mean?	p. 352
Grammar and daily life: concurrence and complementarity	p. 369
On grammar and grammatics	p. 384
Bibliography	p. 419
Index	p. 433
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