Systemic Functional Grammar of Spanish

A Contrastive Study with English

Julia Lavid author Jorge Arús author Juan Rafael Zamorano-Mansilla author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:11th Feb '10

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This systemic-functional account of Spanish, analyses how Spanish grammatical forms compare and contrast with those of English.

Offers a systemic-functional account of Spanish, and analyses how Spanish grammatical forms compare and contrast with those of English. This book analyses Spanish according to the three main 'metafunctions': ideational, interpersonal, and textual.This book offers a systemic-functional account of Spanish, and analyses how Spanish grammatical forms compare and contrast with those of English. The authors analyse Spanish according to the three main 'metafunctions': ideational, interpersonal, and textual. The result is a comprehensive examination of Spanish grammar from the clause upwards. Presupposing little or no knowledge of Spanish, this book will be of interest to researchers in Spanish language, systemic functional linguistics or contrastive linguistics.

This work is welcome as a long-awaited comprehensive account of the Spanish clausal resources inspired by the work conducted by M.A.K. Halliday and his colleagues on English. -- Linguist

ISBN: 9780826482952

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468 pages