A Systemic Functional Grammar of Chinese

Author: Li, Eden Sum-Hung, Halliday, M. A. K.

Chinese

Published on 20 February 2007 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.).

Hardback | 292 pages, 1, black & white illustrations
168 x 242 x 22 | 600g

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.