Interpersonal Grammar

This book focuses on the grammar of interpersonal systems in eight different languages (Mongolian, Mandarin, Tagalog, Pitjantjatjara, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, British Sign Language and Scottish Gaelic) from the perspective of systemic functional linguistics (SFL) - with a focus on mood, modality, polarity, tagging, vocation and comment systems. The chapters have been designed to illustrate the methodology whereby SFL grammatical descriptions are developed - including the concerns of data collection and criterial argumentation. The book accordingly provides a model for functional grammatical description and can thus be used to inform work on system and structure across languages as a foundation for functional language typology--