Other Approaches: Levels, Domains, Modules and Interfaces
Strata in Systemic Functional Linguistics - Levels, Layers, Planes, Domains - Elissa D. Asp
Elissa D. Asp [+]
Saint Mary's University
Elissa D. Asp is Professor of English and Linguistics, and Coordinator of Linguistics at Saint Mary's University, Halifax, NS. She was educated at Glendon College and York University in Toronto, where she specialized in linguistic description of discourse and linguistic theory. She is interested in functional and formal theories of language and developing models that elucidate language processing in context. Ongoing research addresses three main areas: (1) language and discourse correlates of dementias, especially neurodegenerative diseases associated with ageing; (2) MEG studies of neurocognitive networks supporting language and discourse processing; (3) theoretical implications of these studies for models of language.
Description
This chapter explores a range of other approaches to the phenomena handled by strata in SFL models in order to foreground how stratified models actually differ and where there are overlaps. Other approaches discussed include cognitive construction grammar, functional discourse grammar, the parallel architecture model, role and reference grammar, and word grammar among functional grammars and minimalist, cartographic and parametric substantiation perspectives among formal models.