An Introduction to the Grammar of Old English - A Systemic Functional Approach - Michael Cummings
Old English groups and phrases
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
From top to bottom, the rank scale is a hierarchy of increasingly less-inclusive grammatical units, stretching from the clause, down through groups and phrases, through words, to morpheme units. Groups and phrases are therefore the immediate constituents of clauses, and have word units as their own immediate constituents. This chapter considers these.