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Systemic Functional Linguistics, Part 2

Systemic Functional Linguistics, Part 2

Name: Systemic Functional Linguistics, Part 2
Author: Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen
ISBN: 9781049800042

by Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen

Edited by Kazuhiro Teruya, Kaela Peijia and Diana Slade

Published by: University of Toronto Press

Series: Collected Works of Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen

Imprint: University of Toronto Press

512 Pages, 157.00 × 231.00 × 36.00 mm

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Published: December 2025

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The second volume of Systemic Functional Linguistics contains Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen’s papers on Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) spanning forty years from 1981 to the present.
This updated volume builds on the foundation developed in Volume 1, focusing on theoretically guided modelling of language in computational linguistic systems and on key aspects of the theory such as metafunction, rank (the conception of morphology), indeterminacy, and probability. This volume also includes a treatment of systemic functional metatheory – the theory of the nature and applicability of theory. The new chapter written for Volume 2 extends the discussion of the challenge of theorizing language to the challenge of modelling language for neurosemiotics, thus paying attention to the applicability of systemic functional linguistics. This volume captures Matthiessen’s expanding research and addresses core aspects of SFL to help students, instructors, and all readers discover the wealth of Matthiessen’s systemic functional work.

Foreword
David Butt

Editorial Introduction
Kazuhiro Teruya, Kaela Peijia Zhang, and Diana Slade

Introduction
Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen
1. A Grammar and a Lexicon for a Text-Production System
2. Systemic Grammar in Computation: The NIGEL Case
3. Semantics for a Systemic Grammar: The Chooser and Inquiry Framework
4. Two Approaches to Semantic Interfaces in Text Generation
5. Metafunctional Complementarity and Resonance in Syntagmatic Organization
6. Fuzziness Construed in Language: A Linguistic Perspective
7. On the Idea of Theory-Neutral Descriptions
8. Interview with Christian Matthiessen (Cardiff, 1998)
9. Halliday’s Conception of Language as a Probabilistic System
10. Instantial Systems and Logogenesis
11. Systemic Functional Morphology: The Lexicogrammar of the Word
12. The Architecture of Language According to SFL: Some Reflections on Implications for Neurosemiotics

Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen is professor of linguistics at Complutense University of Madrid.

Kazuhiro Teruya has previously taught at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, PRC and at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He was also involved in the Language-based Intelligent Systems project at the Brain Science Institute, RIKEN, in Japan.

Kaela Peijia Zhang is a lecturer in the Department of English at Hang Seng University of Hong Kong.

Diana Slade is a professor of applied linguistics and director of the Institute for Communication in Health Care at the Australian National University.

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