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-What is lexicogrammar?
-Introducing systemic functional grammar.
-Prescriptivism vs. Descriptivism in grammar teaching.
-Formal grammar vs. Functional grammar.
-Grammatical function and grammatical form.
-Three-Dimensi...
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Solemne 1
Melanie Ramírez
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, Vocabulary Syntax, how we put the
words together according
to structures and rules
Halliday proposed the concept of Lexicogrammar based on Lexicogrammar is a term directly related to systemic
his work ‘Systemic Functional Linguistic’ which sees functional linguistics, concept to describe the continuity
language as a meaning-making resource. between grammar and lexis. For many linguists, these
phenomena are discrete. But this term brings them
Lexicogrammar is used to emphasise the interdependence together. It does not integrate the two types of patterns
of and continuity between vocabulary (lexis) and grammar as its name might suggest it is fundamentally grammar
(syntax). For Halliday is a level of linguistic structure, with a certain amount of attention to lexical patterns
where lexis and syntax (their position in a sentence) within the grammatical frameworks.
combine into one, so Lexicogrammar works with lexis Examples: Lexical verbs have valency patterns (you have
(vocabulary) and grammar (syntax) together. In this way, some rules related to the meaning of the word, so is
the meaning depends on the structure and function, related to the lexis and grammar):
where If I change the order of the words, the meaning -Some verbs can be used with a direct object (I made some
changes. oven gloves)
-Or with both a direct object and an indirect object (the
Mainly, Lexicogrammar approach tells us to focus on the
government awarded them a pay rise)
function of the language we use, but also the words and form.
-Others need no object at all (The Colonel was laughing)
The most important is the purpose, “why I make the choices
that I made?”
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