10. Descriptive motifs and generalizations

Matthiessen, Christian M.I.M.

doi:10.1075/cilt.253.12mat

In:Language Typology: A functional perspective
Edited by Alice Caffarel-Cayron, J.R. Martin and Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 253] 2004
► pp. 537–673

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10. Descriptive motifs and generalizations

Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen

Published online: 23 December 2004

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.253.12mat

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2022. Sundanese Nominal Groups: Meaning in Text. WORD 68:2 ► pp. 145 ff.

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2022. Some Conceptual Issues in Systemic Functional Linguistics. In Systemic Functional Insights on Language and Linguistics [The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series, ], ► pp. 93 ff.

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2022. Applying Systemic Functional Linguistics to Translation Studies Around the World. In Systemic Functional Insights on Language and Linguistics [The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series, ], ► pp. 281 ff.

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2022. Systemic Functional Language Typology. In Systemic Functional Insights on Language and Linguistics [The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series, ], ► pp. 197 ff.

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2021. A Systemic Functional Study of the System of Modality in Chinese. Sage Open 11:3

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2021. The Nominal Group in Khorchin Mongolian: A Systemic Functional Perspective. WORD 67:3 ► pp. 350 ff.

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2020. Universals. In Handbook of Pragmatics [Handbook of Pragmatics, ], ► pp. 221 ff.

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2019. Negotiating interpersonal relations in Chinese-English diplomatic interpreting. Interpreting. International Journal of Research and Practice in Interpreting 21:1 ► pp. 12 ff.

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2021. Interpersonal Grammar in Mandarin. In Interpersonal Grammar, ► pp. 96 ff.

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2016. A survey of studies in systemic functional language description and typology. Functional Linguistics 3:1

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