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McGregor, William. 1990. The metafunctional hypothesis and syntagmatic relations. Occasional Papers in Systemic Linguistics 4 : 5–50.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

functions of language | systemic grammar

Annotation

M. argues that the Hallidayan metafunctions are best defined in terms of syntagmatic relations, in such a way that each metafunction is associated with a different type of syntagmatic relation.