Explorations in Functional Syntax - A New Framework for Lexicogrammatical Analysis - G. David Morley
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Explorations in Functional Syntax - A New Framework for Lexicogrammatical Analysis - G. David Morley
G. David Morley [+]
University of Strathclyde
G. David Morley is Lecturer in Modern Languages at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland. He is also the author of An Introduction to Systemic Grammar (Macmillan, 1985) and Syntax in Functional Grammar: an Introduction to Lexicogrammar in Systemic Linguistics (Continuum, 2000).
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Interpreted grammatically, a sentence consists of one or more clauses which are interrelated on a grammatically coordinate or subordinate basis. This chapter focuses on the sentence as clause complex, and discusses the formal classes of a sentence.