Hello all,
This year marks 60 years since Halliday published his seminal paper ‘Categories
of the theory of grammar’ in Word. To celebrate this anniversary, the first of
three special issues in Word has just been published, focusing on the nominal
group in languages across the world from the perspective of SFL, edited by J.R.
Martin, Dongbing Zhang and myself:
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rwrd20/67/3?nav=tocList
We welcome you all to have a read and engage with the work that many of our
colleagues have put forward in these issues. The contents of first issue are:
WORD, Volume 67, Issue 3 (2021)
Special Issue (Part 1): The Grammar of Nominal Groups: Systemic Functional
Linguistic Perspectives
Introduction<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00437956.2021.1959930>
J. R. Martin<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Martin%2C+J+R>, Y. J.
Doran<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Doran%2C+Y+J> & Dongbing
Zhang<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Zhang%2C+Dongbing>
Nominal Group Grammar: System and
Structure<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00437956.2021.1957545>
J.R. Martin<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Martin%2C+JR>, Y.J.
Doran<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Doran%2C+YJ> & Dongbing
Zhang<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Zhang%2C+Dongbing>
deixis in the Dagaare Nominal Group: Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic
Perspectives<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00437956.2021.1957546>
Isaac N. Mwinlaaru<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Mwinlaaru%2C+Isaac+N>
Nominal Group Systems and Structures in Lhasa
Tibetan<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00437956.2021.1957547>
Pin Wang<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Wang%2C+Pin>
The Nominal Group in Khorchin Mongolian: A Systemic Functional
Perspective<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00437956.2021.1957548>
Dongbing Zhang<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Zhang%2C+Dongbing>
Korean Nominal Groups: System and
Structure<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00437956.2021.1957549>
J. R. Martin<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Martin%2C+J+R> & Gi-Hyun
Shin<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Shin%2C+Gi-Hyun>
The second issue is currently in press and will be published toward the end of
the year. Its contents are:
Serbian nominal groups: System and Structure
Dragana Stosic
The nominal group in Brazilian Portuguese
Giacomo Figueredo
Interpreting the Old English nominal group from a parsed corpus
Michael Cummings
The Ancient Greek nominal group, with attention to the Greek New Testament
Stanley E. Porter & Christopher D. Land
Nominal groups in Pitjantjatjara
David Rose
The third issue is currently in preparation, and will include papers from Jing
Hao and Wang Pin on the effect of grammatical metaphor on nominal groups in
Mandarin Chinese, J.R. Martin and Prixie Cruz on an Ecolinguistic perspective
on the Tagalog nominal group, myself and Lungguh Ariang Bangga on a text-based
description of the nominal group in Sundanese, and if we’re lucky, Luke Rudge
on the nominal group in British Sign Language. Rounding all of these issues up
will be Christian Matthiessien synthesising the descriptive motifs and
generalisation that arise in nominal groups across the world.
Thank you to all the contributors! And thanks in particular to Jonathan Webster
and Peggie Tse for opening space for us for these issues!
Yaegan
Y. J. DORAN
THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
