A Corpus-Based Approach to Clause Combining in English from the Systemic Functional Perspective

This book presents corpus-based research on functional syntax. It is the first book to present a comprehensive investigation into grammatical metaphor in English clause combining in large-size corpora. By providing a systematic illustration of features such as parataxis, hypotaxis and embedding, it...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: He, Qingshun (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: e-Book
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Series:The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series,
Subjects:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax.
Computational linguistics.
Germanic languages.
Syntax.
Computational Linguistics.
Germanic Languages.
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1 Introduction
  • Chapter 2 A Systemic Functional Approach to Clause Combining in English
  • Chapter 3 Research Design
  • Chapter 4 Genre Distributions of Clause Combining
  • Chapter 5 Diachronic Distribution of Clause Combining
  • Chapter 6 Grammatical Metaphor in Clause Combining
  • Chapter 7 Conclusion.

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