Clause complexing in systemic functional lingustics – towards an alternative description

Evolving systemic functional linguistics: beyond the clause

In this autobiographical essay I reflect on my training in linguistics and the way it affected my interpretation and development of SFL theory. In particular I am concerned to show how I tried to help SFL evolve, accumulating previous understandings into a model with additional theoretical architecture taking descriptive responsibility for a wider range of linguistic data. This evolution is ill...

Structural-Functional Dynamism: An Alternative Approach to Spatial

Spatial planning approaches along with complication of societies are being changed. These changes and transformations have reflected themselves in increasing diversification of economic patterns, people, group, organization, and institution’s mobility. While in less developed network societies some of the concepts including “distance” and “movement “are relatively losing their importance , some...

Procedural Polytheism: An Alternative Approach to the Free-Exercise Clause

An alternative description of extractions in TAG

The aim of the paper is to propose a new description of extraction in plain TAG. Contrary to Kroch 1987’s analysis, our description is based on the fact that the power of a relative clause to adjoin on a noun can be attached to the wh-word rather than to a verb. This analysis solves some problems of the previous analysis, notably by giving the right semantic dependency in case of pied-piping. W...

Sociocultural Identity in TEFL Textbooks: A Systemic Functional ‎Analysis

This study aimed at investigating shades of identity in TEFL textbooks. Most identity studies have focused on authors as knowledge producers. They have neglected authors' roles in constructing identity. Further, few scholars have considered disciplinary specific textbooks in their analyses of identity. Trying to bridge these gaps, we applied Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics to investi...