An Introduction to the Grammar of Old English - A Systemic Functional Approach - Michael Cummings
The Old English clause from the experiential 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
This chapter will concern itself with the experiential part (the other is the logical) of the ideational metafunction. This experiential perspective undertakes the Old English clause as mirroring the real world so to speak, that is, as a representation of an extra-linguistic reality.