The segment is an elusive entity. On the one hand it appears so intuitively obvious that it might appear strange to some that it warrants the attention of an entire volume, yet on the other hand it is not at all clear what it is, where it comes from, or whether or not the concept is entirely chimerical and thus a hindrance in our attempts to understand human language. This volume takes a de…
This book offers a critical examination of the standard description of tense and aspect in Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and suggests a new approach to these categories within a systemic functional framework. While SFL is developing very rapidly in its applications and in a number of theoretical derivations, many of Halliday’s basic assumptions, as well as many of hi…
What is a collocation? Collocation means a natural combination of words; it refers to the way English words are closely associated with each other. For example, pay and attention go together, as do commit and crime; blond goes with hair and heavy with rain. Why learn collocations?