Full Description
This volume brings together contributions to a key area of interest within the framework of systemic functional linguistics: the role of meaning in the lexicogrammar. A key figure in the debate on this role is Robin Fawcett who has long argued for a fully semantic lexicogrammar where the relevant systems are seen as representing `choices between meanings'.
This volume, a festschrift in honour of Fawcett's long-standing contribution to the field, raises important questions related to lexicogrammatical meaning within systemic functional linguistics by examining the meaning-form interface, lexicogrammatical meaning in theme and transitivity, as well as lexis, intonation and its role in computational models. Importantly, discussions in the volume also explore the relationship between alternative approaches to systemic functional lexicogrammar, notably between the Hallidayan model and the Cardiff Grammar model developed primarily by Robin Fawcett.
Contents
Foreword
Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Introduction
Gordon Tucker, Guowen Huang, Lise Fontaine and Edward McDonald
Section 1: Divergence
1. Finding Complementarity in the Approaches of M.A.K. Halliday and Robin Fawcett
Jonathan Webster, City University of Hong Kong
2. Relating Form and Meaning: A Comparison of the Cardiff Grammar with Other Functional and/or Cognitive/Constructionist Approaches
Christopher Butler, Swansea University
3. On the Abstractness of Levels of Description in Systemic Functional Linguistics
Mick O'Donnell, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
4. Embedding in the Cardiff Grammar: A Comparative Study
Zhang Delu, Tongji University
5. `United but not the Same': Exploring Ways of Talking across Divergence within SFL
Edward McDonald
Section 2: Convergence
6. From Form to Meaning in the Cardiff Model of Language and Its Use: A Functional-Syntactic Analysis of `He has been Talking about Going to the Grand Canyon with Margaret for Many Years'
Guowen Huang
7. On the Meaning-Form Interface of the Cardiff Grammar
Victor Castel, National University of Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina
8. Lexical Representation in the Cardiff Grammar: An Appraisal
Gordon Tucker
9. Referring and the Nominal Group: A Closer Look at the Selector Element
Lise Fontaine and David Schoenthal, Cardiff University
Section 3: Description
10. Quantifying Things: The `Quantifying Modifier' and its Raising Construction in Japanese
Hiroshi Funamoto, Hokuriku University
11. Intonation in Semantic System Networks
Paul Tench, Cardiff University
12. On Choosing the Subject Theme
Margaret Berry, University of Nottingham (retired)
13. Negation in Japanese: A New Treatment of Nai as a Process Type in the Japanese Transitivity Network - A Kyoto Grammar Approach
Masaaki Tatsuki, Doshisha University
14. An Alternative Model of the Transitivity System of Chinese
Wei He, Beijing Foreign Studies University
15. The Ideational Semantics of the Canonical Existential Clause in English
Kristin Davidse, Catholic University of Leuven
Section 4: Towards Consilience
16. Models - Predictions - Data: An (Un)Problematic Relationship?
Erich Steiner, Saarland University
