A Systemic Functional Grammar of Chinese [Hardcover]

This book presents an analysis of Chinese grammar from a systemic functional perspective. Its main focus is the clausal grammar of Chinese, and Dr Li provides a thorough analysis of Chinese clauses according to their constituent parts. However, uniquely, the second half of the book extends this examination into an analysis of Chinese discourse and text analysis. Professor Halliday's foreword praises Eden Li's thorough analysis, and shows its relevance to the field of systemic functional linguistics in general. Systemic Functional Grammar of Chinese provides the reader with a general theoretical framework of grammar and discourse analysis from a systemic functional perspective.

1. Historical and theoretical background2. Building block: below the clause 3. Construing experience: clause as representation 4. Construing connectivity: grammatical logic 5. Enacting relationships: clause as exchange 6. Enabling discourse: clause as message 7. Above the clause: connexity of texts References Appendix