Introduction:a personal perspective&Professor M.A.K.Halliday 1
SECTION ONE:EARLY PAPERS ON BASIC CONCEPTS 17
Editor's Introduction 17
1 Some aspects of systematic description and comparison in grammatical analysis 21
2 Categories of the theory of grammar 37
3 Class in relation to the axes of chain and choice in language 95
4 Some notes on 'deep' grammar 106
5 The concept of rank:a reply 118
Appendix to Section One 127
SECTION TWO:WORD-CLAUSE-TEXT 155
Editor's Introduction 155
6 Lexis as a linguistic level 158
7 Language structure and language function 173
8 Modes of meaning and modes of expression:types of grammatical structure and their determination by different semantic functions 196
9 Text semantics and clause grammar:how is a text like a clause? 219
10 Dimensions of discourse analysis:grammar 261
SECTION THREE:CONSTRUING AND ENACTING 289
Editor's Introduction 289
11 On the ineffability of grammatical categories 291
12 Spoken and written modes of meaning 323
13 How do you mean? 352
14 Grammar and daily life:concurrence and complementarity 369
15 On grammar and grammatics 384
Bibliography 419
Index 433