From the 1990s, the multimodal turn in discourse studies makes multimodal discourse analysis a popular topic in linguistics and communication studies. An important approach to applying Systemic Functional Linguistics to non-verbal modes is Visual Grammar initially proposed by Kress and van Leeuwen (1996). Considering that commercial advertisement is an indispensable part of the modern society t...

While in the history of generative grammar the distinction between Obligatory Control and Nonobligatory Control has been high on the agenda for a long time, recently a fresh idea has been thrust into the limelight posing a real challenge to any theory of control (cf. Landau 2000). It has been proved that the relation between PRO and its controller is not always one of identity, i.e. the referen...

This paper shows that Right-Node Raising and its mirror image, Argument Cluster Coordination, are fundamentally different phenomena, and provides evidence that the range of constructions in which Right-Node Raising may occur is much wider than usually assumed in the literature. We argue that this phenomenon is best captured as ellipsis of prosodic units under semantic and phonological identity....