Lexicogrammar of Adjectives: A Systemic Functional Approach to Lexis

by Gordon H. Tucker

Adjectives are the third most important class of words (after verbs and nouns), yet this is the first book-length study in English of this central grammatical category. In it English adjectives are described within a framework which unifies semantics and syntax; this has important implications for the modelling of lexis in general. It has long been a principle of systemic functional linguistics - the theory in which the description is set - that lexis...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0304339032
• ISBN13: 9780304339037
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"