Functions of Language

Volume 1, Issue 1 (1994)

1994.

Publishing status: Available

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/fol.1.1

Table of Contents

Foreword M.A.K. Halliday †	1–5
Articles
Extraposition in English Peter Collins	7–24
Complex sentence constructions in Nyulnyul, Western Australia William B. McGregor	25–66
Possessives and topicality John R. Taylor	67–94
Developing an educational linguistics for English language teaching: A systemic functional linguistic perspective Frances H. Christie	95–127
Review article
Anna Siewierska on Functional Grammar Rudi Gebruers	129–144
Reviews
Review of Firbas (1992): Functional Sentence Perspective in Written and Spoken Communication Reviewed by Ronald Geluykens	145–150
Review of Ford (1993): Grammar in Interaction: Adverbial Clauses in American English Conversations Reviewed by Elyse K. Abraham	150–153
Review of Klinck (1992): The Word of the Law: Approaches to Legal Discourse Reviewed by Sandra J. Harris	153–156
Review of Rothkegel (1993): Textualisieren: Theorie und Computermodellder Text-produktion Reviewed by Wolfgang Koch	156–158
Short book notices
Jonathan E. Arensen. Mice are Men: Language and Society among the Murle of Sudan Gino Eelen	159–160
Tim R. Gibson. Towards a Discourse Theory of Abstracts and Abstracting Eija Ventola	160–161
Sharon Rebecca Rand. The French Imparfait and Passé Simple in Discourse Carl Vetters	161–162