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Functions of Language
Vol. 9:1 (2002) ► pp. 61–86
Review article

On being true to form

Models of syntax in Systemic Functional Grammar

R. Fawcett. A theory of syntax for systemic functional linguistics
[Current issues in linguistic theory, 206]. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2000. xxiii + 360 pp. ISBN 90 272 3713 1

| University of Wales Swansea
Published online: 19 November 2002
https://doi.org/10.1075/fol.9.1.05but
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