Approaches to Systemic Functional Grammar - Convergence and Divergence - Gordon Tucker
7. On the Meaning-Form Interface of the Cardiff Grammar
Approaches to Systemic Functional Grammar - Convergence and Divergence - Gordon Tucker
Victor Castel [+]
National University of Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina
Description
Victor Castel’s chapter addresses the meaning-form interface (MFI) of the Cardiff Grammar (CG) from a generation-oriented perspective that reflects the author’s work on the computational implementation of CG. The MFI comprises the realisation rules which map semantic features selected from the network of semantic options (the selection expression) and define the formal structure of clauses. It describes the role of ‘triggers’ in this process, which account for the central formal relationships in the structure, such as Filling, Componence and Exponence, Castel’s shows how graph notation makes explicit the complex relations, both in the semantics and in the form, that are not explicit in CG representations.