An Introduction to the Grammar of Old English - A Systemic Functional Approach - Michael Cummings
The Old English clause from the interpersonal perspective
An Introduction to the Grammar of Old English - A Systemic Functional Approach - Michael Cummings
Michael Cummings [+]
York University
Michael Cummings teaches as Professor emeritus at York University, Toronto. He is co-author or co-editor of The Language of Literature (1983), Linguistics in a Systemic Perspective (1988), and Relations and Functions within and around Language (2002). He has also published a number of articles and book chapters on the systemic functional description of Old English.
Description
The clause is seen to have three overriding functions: one related to the representation of reality, one related to the combination of utterances into text and one related to the interaction between parties to the communication. This chapter goes on to look at the clause from the interpersonal perspective.