On Grammar

M A K Halliday was born in Yorkshire in 1925. In 1965 he became Professor of General Linguistics at University College London. In 1975 he was appointed Foundation Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney, where he remained until his retirement.

• Introduction: A Personal Perspective by M.A.K. Halliday / Section One: Early Papers on Basic Concepts / 1. Some Aspects of Systematic Description and Comparison in Grammatical Analysis / 2. Categories of the Theory of Grammar / 3. Class in Relation to the Axes of Chain and Choice in Language / 4. Some Notes on "Deep" Grammar / 5. The Concept of Rank: A Reply / Appendix to Section One / Section Two: Word-Clause-Text / 6. Lexis as a Linguistic Level / 7. Language Structure and Language Function / 8. Modes of Meaning and Modes of Expression: Types of Grammatical Structure and Their Determination by Different Semantic Functions / 9. Text Semantics and Clause Grammar: How is a Text Like a Clause? / 10. Dimensions of Discourse Analysis: Grammar / Section Three: Construing and Enacting / 11. On the Ineffability of Grammatical Categories / 12. Spoken and Written Modes of Meaning / 13. How Do You Mean? / 14. Grammar and Daily Life: Concurrence and Complementarity / 15. On Grammar and Grammatics