Date: 18-Jul-2010 From: Janet Joyce <jjoyceequinoxpub.com>
Subject: An Introduction to the Grammar of Old English: Cummings
E-mail this message to a friend Title: An Introduction to the
Grammar of Old English Subtitle: A Systemic Functional Approach
Series Title: Functional Linguistics Publisher: Equinox
Publishing Ltd This book applies the techniques of systemic
functional grammar to the description of the Old English
historical dialect, 650-1150 CE. Systemic functional grammar is
an approach to the description of language which distinguishes
three separate functions in communication: language as
representation, language as attitude, and language as the
construction of text. Most applications of systemic functional
theory have concentrated on modern English. This book is the
first comprehensive description of the Old English dialect on
systemic functional principles. The book begins with an outline
of systemic functional grammatical theory. It then describes the
Old English clause with a separate grammar for