TY - GEN AB - This book describes the grammar of Chinese nominal groups for the purpose of text analysis, drawing upon Hallidays systemic functional linguistics (SFL) model. Exploring the metafunctional grammatical resources in nominal groups, the book provides a new perspective on conducting text analysis by focusing on the metafunctions performed by various elements in the nominal group. The observations on nominal groups presented here are based on both a working corpus of 180 texts of various types and a large referential corpus of over 16 billion tokens. With clear descriptions of the terminology used, the book presents a case study at the end of each major chapter, which demonstrates how the grammatical resources discussed can be applied to the delicate analysis of authentic texts. This monograph is more than a grammar book, for it offers a new way to engage with a text microscopically and enables readers to approach and analyse a text by focusing on grammatical units below the clause level. The book provides an accessible and valuable resource for readers who are interested in SFL-based typological description, text analysis, translation studies between English and Chinese, EnglishChinese comparative linguistic studies, and Chinese language teaching and learning. . AU - Fang, Jing, CN - PL1107 DO - 10.1007/978-981-19-4009-5 DO - doi ID - 1449536 KW - Chinese language KW - Systemic grammar. KW - Functionalism (Linguistics) KW - Grammar, Comparative and general LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-981-19-4009-5 N2 - This book describes the grammar of Chinese nominal groups for the purpose of text analysis, drawing upon Hallidays systemic functional linguistics (SFL) model. Exploring the metafunctional grammatical resources in nominal groups, the book provides a new perspective on conducting text analysis by focusing on the metafunctions performed by various elements in the nominal group. The observations on nominal groups presented here are based on both a working corpus of 180 texts of various types and a large referential corpus of over 16 billion tokens. With clear descriptions of the terminology used, the book presents a case study at the end of each major chapter, which demonstrates how the grammatical resources discussed can be applied to the delicate analysis of authentic texts. This monograph is more than a grammar book, for it offers a new way to engage with a text microscopically and enables readers to approach and analyse a text by focusing on grammatical units below the clause level. The book provides an accessible and valuable resource for readers who are interested in SFL-based typological description, text analysis, translation studies between English and Chinese, EnglishChinese comparative linguistic studies, and Chinese language teaching and learning. . SN - 9811940096 SN - 9789811940095 T1 - A systemic functional grammar of Chinese nominal groups :a text-based approach / TI - A systemic functional grammar of Chinese nominal groups :a text-based approach / UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-981-19-4009-5 ER -