Re: Time in text (Jim)

James Robert Martin (jmartin who-is-at extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU)
Tue, 30 Apr 1996 09:34:44 +1000 (EST)

Francoise was asking about references to work on time depth. Here's a few:

For phylogenesis, Halliday has a number of chapters on the evolution of
scientific discourse in M A K Halliday & J R Martin 1993 Writing Science.
Pittsburg: University of Pittsburg Press & Falmer: London.

Less technically, there's M A K Halliday 1993 Language in a Changing World.
Applied Linguistics Association of Australia Occasional Paper 13 (order
from Anthony Liddicot, Linguistics, Australian National University,
Canberra, ACT 0200.

More technically there C Nesbitt & G Plum 1988 Probabilities in a
systemic-functional grammar: the clause complex in English. R Fawcett & D
Young [Eds.] New Developments in Systemic Linguistics: Volume 2: Theory
and Application. London: Pinter.

For ontogenesis, the most extensive treatment is C Painter 1984 Into the
Mother Tongue. London: Pinter.

For logogensis, there's a compilation of systemic work on discourse
elaborated in J R Martin 1992 English Text. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

For a computational perspective see C Matthiessen & J Bateman 1991 Text
Generation and Systemic-Functional Linguistics. London: Pinter.

Matthiessen's new Lexicogrammatical Cartography 1996 Tokyo: International
Language Sciences Publishers contains lots of relevant material.

Jim Martin