英语语言研究

This is a fascinating volume, which is mainly devoted to Michael Halliday's　thinking in the 1960s. The collection includes articles ranging from　detailed innovative proposals for a description of intonation that would　allow it to be incorporated into the grammar, through an ambitious re　orientation of the focus of grammatical description at a time when　Systemic grammar was emerging from Scale and Category, to a much　later small-scale corpus investigation of the grammar of pain. Together　they illustrate Halliday's continuing intellectual enthusiasm and openness　to new linguistic trends, even though his own development has always　been by accretion, rather than revolution. So, the reader is fascinated to　discover how much of the early work has been retained, often in a　considerably modified form, in the 21st century version of Systemic　Functional grammar.

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Towards an Appliable
Description of the Grammar of a Language xxiii
PART ONE THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS
Editor's Introduction
　1　Notes on Transitivity and Theme in
　　English - Part 1
2　Notes on Transitivity and Theme in
　 English - Part 2
　3 Notes on Transitivity and Theme in
　English - Part 3
　4 Options and Functions in the English Clause
　5 Functional Diversity in Language, as Seen
　From a Consideration of Modality and Mood
in English
PART TWO SPECIAL TOPICS
　Editor's Introduction
　6 On Being Teaching
　7 It's a Fixed Word Order Language is English
PART THREE INTONATION AND GRAMMAR
　Editor's Introduction
　8 The Tones of English
　9 Intonation in English Grammar
　10 English Intonation as a Resource　for Discourse
PART FOUR ANALYSES
　Editor's Introduction
　11 　The Teacher Taught the Student English'
An Essay in Applied Linguistics
　12 On the Grammar of Pain
Bibliography
Index