Information Structure in Persian: A Comparison of Systemic Functional Grammar & Role and Reference Grammar

Exploring Persian Commercials Based on the Halliday’s Systemic-Functional Grammar

Advertisement has long been used as a tool for informing and attracting audiences in different ways. This study aims at investigating the linguistic tools of advertisement in Persian on the basis of Halliday’s systemic-functional grammar theory. The data of this study were gathered from written and verbal commercial advertisements which were recorded and rewritten in order to investigate verbal...

A Probabilistic Representation of Systemic Functional Grammar

The notion of language as probabilistic is well known within Systemic Functional Linguistics. Aspects of language are discussed as meaningful tendencies, not as deterministic rules. In past computational representations of functional grammars, this probabilistic property has typically been omitted. This paper will present the results of a recent project aimed at the computational learning, repr...

Semantic Macroroles in Role and Reference Grammar

Issues regarding the nature of the semantic relationships holding between a verb (or other predicating element) and its arguments have been the focus of much research and controversy since the mid-1960’s. Starting from Gruber (1965)’s notion of thematic relations and Fillmore (1968)’s concept of case roles, most contemporary theories of grammar assume some system of semantic predicate-argument ...

Korean Causatives in Role and Reference Grammar

who offered both ever-insightful comments and encouragement. My committee member Matthew Dryer, who spent much of his time reading and commenting on this project, in spite of his extremely busy schedule. My committee member Leonard Talmy, who gave me support and warm encouragement.

An Overview of Role and Reference Grammar