The second volume of Systemic Functional Linguistics contains Christian M.I.M. Matthiessens papers on Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) spanning forty years from 1981 to the present. This updated volume builds on the foundation developed in Volume 1, focusing on theoretically guided modelling of language in computational linguistic systems and on key aspects of the theory such as metafunction, rank (the conception of morphology), indeterminacy, and probability. This volume also includes a treatment of systemic functional metatheory the theory of the nature and applicability of theory. The new chapter written for Volume 2 extends the discussion of the challenge of theorizing language to the challenge of modelling language for neurosemiotics, thus paying attention to the applicability of systemic functional linguistics. This volume captures Matthiessens expanding research and addresses core aspects of SFL to help students, instructors, and all readers discover the wealth of Matthiessens systemic functional work.
Foreword
David Butt
Editorial Introduction
Kazuhiro Teruya, Kaela Peijia Zhang, and Diana Slade
Introduction
Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen
1. A Grammar and a Lexicon for a Text-Production System
2. Systemic Grammar in Computation: The NIGEL Case
3. Semantics for a Systemic Grammar: The Chooser and Inquiry Framework
4. Two Approaches to Semantic Interfaces in Text Generation
5. Metafunctional Complementarity and Resonance in Syntagmatic Organization
6. Fuzziness Construed in Language: A Linguistic Perspective
7. On the Idea of Theory-Neutral Descriptions
8. Interview with Christian Matthiessen (Cardiff, 1998)
9. Hallidays Conception of Language as a Probabilistic System
10. Instantial Systems and Logogenesis
11. Systemic Functional Morphology: The Lexicogrammar of the Word
12. The Architecture of Language According to SFL: Some Reflections on
Implications for Neurosemiotics
Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen is a distinguished professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of International Business and Economics, as well as distinguished professor of linguistics at Hunan University, guest professor at Beijing Science and Technology University, and honorary professor at the Australian National University.
Kazuhiro Teruya is an associate professor in the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies at Hang Seng University of Hong Kong.
Kaela Peijia Zhang is a lecturer in the Department of English at Hang Seng University of Hong Kong.
Diana Slade is a professor of applied linguistics and director of the Institute for Communication in Health Care at the Australian National University.
