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The Lexicogrammar of Adjectives

Functional Descriptions of Language Series

Series Editor. Robin Fawcett, University of Wales, College of Cardiff

There is a large and growing interest in functional descriptions of the languages

of the world. This series - conceived as a sister to the Open Linguistics Series -

provides a forum for descriptions of selected aspects of languages (and

occasionally for descriptive overviews of whole languages) that approach the

problem of explaining language from an explicitly functional perspective.

The series offers a natural home for the publications of those working in, or

in sympathy with, one or more of the following theoretical frameworks: systemic

functional linguistics, functional grammar, Firthian description (for example,

work in the tradition of Quirk, Leech and colleagues), functional sentence

perspective, role and reference grammar, cognitive grammar, tagmemics,

stratificational grammar, and the various 'West Coast functionalists' and others

with similar views.

The Lexicogrammar of Adjectives

A Systemic Functional Approach to Lexis

GORDON H. TUCKER

CASSELL

Wellington House, 125 Strand, London WC2R OBB

370 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10017 - 6550

First published 1998

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ISBN 0-304-33903-2

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Tucker, Gordon H. (Gordon Howard), 1945-

The lexicogrammar of adjectives: a systemic functional approach to

lexis/Gordon H. Tucker.