Table of Contents

Preface Introduction: Towards an Appliable Description of the Grammar of a Language
Part I: 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. Diversity in Language, as Seen From a Consideration of Modality and Mood in English
Part II: Special Topics
Editor's Introduction
6. On Being
7. It's a Fixed Word Order Language is English
Part III: 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 VI: Analyses
Editor's Introduction
11. 'The Teacher Taught the Student English': An Essay in Applied Linguistics
12. On the Grammar of Pain
Bibliography
Index

Promotional Information

A fascinating, seventh volume in the Collected Works of M.A.K Halliday series, on Studies in English Language.

About the Author

Professor Jonathan J. Webster is Head of the Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics at the City University of Hong Kong. He is also the Managing Editor of the International Linguistics Association’s journal WORD, and the editor of the forthcoming Journal of World Languages (2014). M.A.K. Halliday was Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney.

Reviews

"an initiative greatly to be welcomed."   Reviewed in IH Journal, 2008

'These four volumes (4, 5, 6 and 7) venture into remarkably diverse fields. How one man could master the minutiae of all these areas of linguistic research is a matter for wonder and admiration. As a linguistic polymath, Halliday far outstrips all contemporaries...One need look for no further explanation of Halliday's current stature as doyen of British linguistics. The publication of Halliday's complete papers is an important contribution to scholarly documentation.' 
*Times Literary Supplement*