A Corpus-based Approach to Clause Combining in English from the Systemic Functional Perspective

A Corpus-based Approach to Clause Combining in English from the Systemic Functional Perspective
Author: Qingshun He
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2019
Genre: Cognitive grammar
ISBN: 9789811373923

This book presents corpus-based research on functional syntax. It is the first book to present a comprehensive investigation into grammatical metaphor in English clause combining in large-size corpora. By providing a systematic illustration of features such as parataxis, hypotaxis and embedding, it fills a gap in the systemic functional literature. It also offers insights into testing grammatical metaphors using a corpus linguistics methodology. The book is a useful resource for anyone interested in writing development.

A Corpus-Based Approach to Clause Combining in English from the Systemic Functional Perspective

A Corpus-Based Approach to Clause Combining in English from the Systemic Functional Perspective
Author: Qingshun He
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2019-05-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9811373914

This book presents corpus-based research on functional syntax. It is the first book to present a comprehensive investigation into grammatical metaphor in English clause combining in large-size corpora. By providing a systematic illustration of features such as parataxis, hypotaxis and embedding, it fills a gap in the systemic functional literature. It also offers insights into testing grammatical metaphors using a corpus linguistics methodology. The book is a useful resource for anyone interested in writing development.

'Subordination' Versus 'coordination' in Sentence and Text

'Subordination' Versus 'coordination' in Sentence and Text
Author: Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2008
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9789027231093

The papers collected in this volume (including a comprehensive introduction) investigate semantic and discourse-related aspects of subordination and coordination, in particular the relationship between subordination/coordination at the sentence level and subordination/coordination - or hierarchical/non-hierarchical organization - at the discourse level. The contributions in part I are concerned with central theoretical questions; part II consists of corpus-based cross-linguistic studies of clause combining and discourse structure, involving at least two of the languages English, German, Dutch, French and Norwegian; part III contains papers addressing specific - predominantly semantic - topics relating to German, English or French; and the papers in part IV approach the topic of subordination, coordination and rhetorical relations from a diachronic (Old Indic and Early Germanic) perspective. The book aims to contribute to a better understanding of information packaging on the sentence and text level related, within a particular language as well as cross-linguistically.

Absolute Clauses in English from the Systemic Functional Perspective

Absolute Clauses in English from the Systemic Functional Perspective
Author: Qingshun He
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2015-02-26
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3662463679

​This book focuses on the structural diversity, semantic variability, case choice, stylistic characteristics and diachronic distribution of English absolute clauses. The syntactic roles assumed by absolute clauses in the traditional sense can be categorized into clausal adjuncts, attendant circumstances and appositives. These three types of function correspond to the three hypotactic expansions in the relation system of clause complexes in Systemic Functional Linguistics, i.e., elaboration, extension and enhancement. This research, therefore, redefines absolute clauses in the framework of SFL and proposes four syntactic types of absolute clauses: absolute paratactic clauses (elaboration), absolute hypotactic clauses (extension and enhancement), absolute projected clauses (fact and act) and absolute embedded clauses (subject). Based on the Brown family corpora, BNC and COHA, this research finds that different function types of absolute clauses differ in terms of their stylistic and diachronic distributions, and both nominative and accusative cases are acceptable.

Patterns and Development in the English Clause System

Patterns and Development in the English Clause System
Author: Clarence Green
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2016-10-27
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9811028818

This book examines in detail the forms and functions of clause combination in English. Using a corpus linguistics methodology, it describes how the English clause system currently behaves, how it has developed over the history of the language, and how the features and properties of English clause combination have important theoretical and empirical significance. Adopting the cognitive-functional Adaptive Approach to grammar, it offers a series of interconnected studies that investigate how English clause combination interacts with the properties of coherence and cohesion in discourse across historical time, as well in contemporary language use. This work contributes to the ever-increasing common ground between corpus linguistics and cognitive-functional linguistics, producing new paths for interdisciplinary research.

Critical Discourse and Corpus Approaches to Systemic Functional Grammar

Critical Discourse and Corpus Approaches to Systemic Functional Grammar
Author: Chenguang Chang
Publisher: Cuvillier Verlag
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2021-03-18
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3736963475

The present volume draws on the experience of the Workshop held in Germany in late 2018 to combine the specialisations of the two linguistic research teams of the two partner universities, Sun Yat-sen University in China and Chemnitz University of Technology in Germany. It combines more theoretical approaches by experienced scholars and case studies by young researchers on topics and texts on current Chinese developments. The contributions can also serve as a general model for open and critical international and intercultural academic discourse.

Patterns and Development in the English Clause System

Patterns and Development in the English Clause System
Author: Clarence Green
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2018-06-29
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9789811097294

This book examines in detail the forms and functions of clause combination in English. Using a corpus linguistics methodology, it describes how the English clause system currently behaves, how it has developed over the history of the language, and how the features and properties of English clause combination have important theoretical and empirical significance. Adopting the cognitive-functional Adaptive Approach to grammar, it offers a series of interconnected studies that investigate how English clause combination interacts with the properties of coherence and cohesion in discourse across historical time, as well in contemporary language use. This work contributes to the ever-increasing common ground between corpus linguistics and cognitive-functional linguistics, producing new paths for interdisciplinary research.

Corpus-based Analyses of the Problem-solution Pattern

Corpus-based Analyses of the Problem-solution Pattern
Author: Lynne Flowerdew
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2008
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9789027223036

This book reports research on the Problem-Solution rhetorical pattern, which has to date received very little attention in corpus-based studies. Insights from genre analysis and systemic-functional grammar are also applied to the analysis of the Problem-Solution pattern, thus moving towards a more multi-faceted analysis of corpus data. The pattern is investigated in two specialized corpora of technically-oriented report writing, a professional corpus and a student corpus, using a key word and key-key word analysis. Phraseological analyses of key words in both corpora are presented. Data show that students' writing lacks a range of lexico-grammatical patternings for expressing the Problem and Solution elements of the pattern. The book concludes with some pedagogic implications and applications of the findings. Suggested concordancing activities are discussed within the context of key issues in the field of data-driven learning.

Corpus-based Approaches to Register Variation

Corpus-based Approaches to Register Variation
Author: Elena Seoane
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2021-12-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027258457

As the first collective volume to focus exclusively on corpus-based approaches to register variation, this book provides an exhaustive account of the range and depth of possibilities that the domain of register variation in English has to offer. It illustrates register variation analysis in different theoretical frameworks, such as Probabilistic Grammar, Systemic Functional Linguistics, and Information Theory, and proposes a new framework within the Text Linguistic Approach: the continuous-situational analytical framework. Several of the contributions apply Multi-Dimensional Analysis to corpus data in order to unveil register (dis)similarities, while others rely on logistic regression models and periodization techniques based on Kullback-Leibler divergence. The volume includes both inter-register and intra-register variation analysis of a wide spectrum of varieties, speakers and periods: British and American English, learner varieties, L2 varieties, and also contains diachronic studies covering early and late Modern English. This broad scope should be a source of inspiration for anyone interested in historical and ongoing register variation in a vast range of varieties of English worldwide.

A Corpus-Based Approach to Clause Combining in English from the Systemic Functional Perspective

A Corpus-Based Approach to Clause Combining in English from the Systemic Functional Perspective
Author: Qingshun He
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2020-08-14
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9789811373930

This book presents corpus-based research on functional syntax. It is the first book to present a comprehensive investigation into grammatical metaphor in English clause combining in large-size corpora. By providing a systematic illustration of features such as parataxis, hypotaxis and embedding, it fills a gap in the systemic functional literature. It also offers insights into testing grammatical metaphors using a corpus linguistics methodology. The book is a useful resource for anyone interested in writing development.