Explorations in Functional Syntax - A New Framework for Lexicogrammatical Analysis - G. David Morley
9 Structural Complexities
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).
Description
The complexities of grammatical relationships are achieved through a range of structural devices. This chapter discusses coordination, subordination, apposition, interruption, extraposition, cleft construction, pseudo-cleft construction, raising, the existential ‘there’, and the identifying ‘it’.