Affiliation:
1. The University of Sydney
2. Australian Catholic University
Abstract
Abstract
In this paper we revisit the association of types of structure with modes of meaning in systemic functional
linguistics (SFL). Focusing mainly on nominal group grammar, we argue that the association of experiential structure with
non-recursive systems realised by multivariate structures and logical structure with recursive systems realised by univariate
structures needs to be relaxed – in recognition of dependency structures consisting of two elements in a head/dependent relation.
We refer to such structures as subjacency duplexes and explore their potential for the analysis of what are often dismissed in SFL
as structure markers – adpositions, linkers and binders in particular.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Subject
General Earth and Planetary Sciences,General Environmental Science