May 2017

Combining transformative generative grammar and systemic functional grammar: Linguistic competence, syntax and second language acquisition

Transformational generative grammar (TGG) and systemic functional grammar (SFG) are two of the most influential theoretical linguistic schools. Previous literature has mostly taken the two approaches as two contrastive perspectives to language. In the present study, the author focused on the non-contradictory side of the two approaches to see how they could be bound together to supplement each other in terms of...

Author(s): Rong Xiao