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Language Typology
A functional perspective
This book is intended as a systemic functional contribution to language typology both for those who would like to understand and describe particular languages against the background of generalizations about a wide range of languages and also for those who would like to develop typological accounts that are based on and embody descriptions of the systems of particular languages (rather than isolated constructions). The book is a unique contribution in at least two respects. On the one hand, it is the first book based on systemic functional theory that is specifically concerned with language typology. On the other hand, the book combines the particular with the general in the description of languages: it presents comparable sketches of particular languages while at the same time identifying generalizations based on the languages described here as well as on other languages.
The volume explores eight languages, covering seven language families: French, German, Pitjantjatjara, Tagalog, Telugu, Vietnamese, Chinese, and Japanese.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 253] 2004. xiv, 702 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 4 September 2006
Published online on 4 September 2006
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- List of contributors | pp. ix–x
- Foreword | pp. xi–xiv
- 1. Introduction: Systemic functional typologyAlice Caffarel-Cayron, J.R. Martin and Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen | pp. 1–76
- 2. Metafunctional profile of the grammar of FrenchAlice Caffarel-Cayron | pp. 77–137
- 3. Metafunctional profile of the grammar of GermanErich Steiner and Elke Teich | pp. 139–184
- 4. Metafunctional profile of the grammar of JapaneseKazuhiro Teruya | pp. 185–254
- 5. Metafunctional profile of the grammar of TagalogJ.R. Martin | pp. 255–304
- 6. Metafunctional profile of the grammar of ChineseM.A.K. Halliday and Edward McDonald | pp. 305–396
- 7. Metafunctional profile of the grammar of VietnameseMinh Duc Thai | pp. 397–431
- 8. Metafunctional profile of the grammar of TeluguV. Prakasam | pp. 433–478
- 9. Metafunctional profile of the grammar of PitjantjatjaraDavid Rose | pp. 479–536
- 10. Descriptive motifs and generalizationsChristian M.I.M. Matthiessen | pp. 537–673
- Index | pp. 675–700
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