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

by Carl Bache

Book Overview

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"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher