An Introduction to the Grammar of Old English - A Systemic Functional Approach - Michael Cummings
Beyond the clause: cohesion and metaphor
An Introduction to the Grammar of Old English - A Systemic Functional Approach - Michael Cummings
Michael Cummings [+]
York University
Michael Cummings teaches as Professor emeritus at York University, Toronto. He is co-author or co-editor of The Language of Literature (1983), Linguistics in a Systemic Perspective (1988), and Relations and Functions within and around Language (2002). He has also published a number of articles and book chapters on the systemic functional description of Old English.
Description
In this concluding chapter we go beyond the clause in two different ways. First, it is in texts that clauses or complexes of clauses are realized as sentences. Text has structural properties that are rooted in the clause, but stretch across clauses and clause complexes These properties are summed up under the category of cohesion. Second, the lexico-grammar of the clause and of its constituents has been seen to involve an alignment of semantic categories and realizatory lexico-grammatical categories.