An Introduction to the Grammar of Old English - A Systemic Functional Approach - Michael Cummings
The Old English clause from the textual 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 takes up the perspective afforded by the third metafunction, the textual. The textual metafunction accounts for the way in which discrete sentence utterances come together to form an organized text.