The lack of a large annotated systemic functional grammar (SFG) corpus has posed a significant challenge for the development of the theory. Automating SFG annotation is challenging because the theory uses a minimal constituency model, allocating as much of the work as possible to a set of hierarchically organised features. In this paper we show that despite the unorthodox organisation of SFG, a...

English has become one of the compulsory subjects for students in China. As a foreign language, especially whose grammatical structure is, some sense, diverse from learners’ mother tongue, it requires teachers to research proper methods present syntactic patterns students’ sake. When turn linguistics, there are two well-known theories about syntax different points perspective. They transformati...

Motivated by a systematic representation of the Chinese aspect forms that explores their intrinsic semantics and temporal logical relations, we are constructing a Chinese aspect system network based on systemic functional grammar and implemented using the multilingual generator KPML. In this paper, we introduce the basic simple primary aspect forms and a set of secondary types of the unmarked-d...

This article presents an overview of the notion of layering in three types of structuralfunctional grammars. Layering is interpreted in a broad sense to refer to two types of linguistic differentiations: (1) on the one hand, a distinction between levels of coding, namely, syntax/grammar, semantics, pragmatics; (2) on the other hand, a differentiation between speaker-related vs. content-related ...