On Grammar

M. A. K. Halliday is Emeritus Professor at the University of Gydney. As a self-styled 'generalist' he has published in many branches of linguistics, both theoretical and applied. The volumes in the present series encompass these aspects of Halliday's work. Jonathan J. Webster is Acting Head, Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics, and Associate Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the City University of Hong Kong.

• 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; 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; 9. Text Semantics and Clause Grammar; 10. Dimensions of Discourse Analysis; 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.

"This first volume in the Collected Works of M. A. K. Halliday series contains fifteen papers, with the addition of a new piece entitled ''A personal perspective'' as the introduction. The papers are pieced together chronologically according to topic, and divided into 3 sections. The whole volume is oriented towards his comprehensive depiction of language, that is, the systemic functional grammar (SFG)." -Linguist List, April 2006