Meaningful arrangement : exploring the syntactic description of texts /
McDonald, Edward,1963-
London : Equinox,
2008.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-246) and indexes.
Meaning and structure -- Processing the text -- Linear sequence and structural order -- Identifying syntactic units -- Bracketing and labelling -- Constituency and dependency -- Identifying clause functions -- Analysing function structures -- Words and phrases -- Combining clauses -- Information flow -- Full words and empty words -- Delimiting syntax -- Theorising syntactic relations (i): case -- Theorising syntactic relations (ii): transitivity -- Modelling syntactic patterning (i): syntagmatic approaches -- Modelling syntactic patterning (ii): paradigmatic approaches -- 'Doing syntax': aims and methodologies.
Grammar, Comparative and general
Discourse analysis.
Meaningful arrangement.