English Tense and Aspect in Halliday's Systemic Functional Grammar - A Critical Appraisal and an Alternative - Carl Bache
A new SFL description of tense and aspect
English Tense and Aspect in Halliday's Systemic Functional Grammar - A Critical Appraisal and an Alternative - Carl Bache
Carl Bache [+]
University of Southern Denmark
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Carl Bache is Professor of English at the University of Southern Denmark. His recent publications include The Study of Aspect, Tense and Action: Towards a Theory of the Semantics of Grammatical Categories (1997) and Essentials of Mastering English (2000).
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This chapter discusses the alternative model introduced in Chapter 4, including its organisation and inventory, the status of BE going to + infinitive, univariate characteristics of verbal expressions and multivariate characteristics of verbal expressions.