This revised edition of the
classic treatment of its subject presents an outline of the grammar of
modern English in the framework of systemic-functional linguistic theory
and serves as an introduction to functional theory in general, which
can be used for describing any language in its own terms. The
description of English presented here has been widely used in a number
of applied linguistics contexts, particularly artificial intelligence
and language education,both second language and mother tongue, but also
in literary stylistics and other fields requiring a rich interpretation
of the text.
