Meaningful Arrangement: Exploring the Syntactic Description of Texts Book

Briefing 1

Pt. I Data - Processing the Text 11

1 Meaning and structure 13

2 Processing the text 20

3 Linear sequence and structural order 33

4 Identifying syntactic units 43

5 Bracketing and labelling 54

Pt. 2 Description - Analysing the Clause 61

6 Constituency and dependency 63

7 Identifying clause functions 76

8 Analysing function structures 90

9 Words and phrases 113

10 Combining clauses 137

11 Information flow 151

12 Full words and empty words 166

Pt. 3 Theory - Theorising Syntax 177

13 Delimiting syntax 181

14 Theorising syntactic relations (i): case 192

15 Theorising syntactic relations (ii): transitivity 201

16 Modelling syntactic patterning (i): syntagmatic approaches 208

17 Modelling syntactic patterning (ii): paradigmatic approaches 216

18 'Doing syntax': aims and methodologies 223

Debriefing 235

References 242

Index of names 247

Index of terms 249