Systemic Functional Grammar of Spanish: A Contrastive Study with English [Hardcover]

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

Preface
Acknowledgements
Notations and symbols
1. Introduction
2. The grammar of ideation (1): logical metafunction
3. The grammar of ideation (2): experiential metafunction
4. Interpersonal grammar
5. Textual grammar
6. The grammar of groups and phrases
References
Index