Modeling topologically systemic-functional profiling of handbooks in the grammar space
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https://doi.org/10.14393/DL29-v11n2a2017-8Keywords:
Systemic functional modeling, Systemic profiling, Computational Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, HandbooksAbstract
This paper adopts Systemic Functional Linguistics and Corpus Linguistics to investigate clause grammar systems and their contributions to text meaning-making. More specifically, it aims at building a dynamic model of grammar describing text production in handbooks in Brazilian Portuguese. Language is a probabilistic system of functions and these probabilities form subsets of textual genres. As the language functions are described, genres can be described and modelled in order to understand how functions build their meaning-making. A handbook corpus was compiled and profiled for the main clause grammar functions. The model shows that the prototypical handbook functions are material, relational and verbal process, declarative and jussive mood, and default and perspective theme. Accordingly, it generalizes the most frequent probabilities for choices in grammar systems for the handbook.Downloads
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