TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lock, Graham.
AU  - Jack C. Richards
TI  - Functional english grammar: An introduction for second langauge teachers 
SN  - 521459222
AV  - PE 1128.A2 .L54 1996 
PY  - 1996///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - ENGLISH LANGUAGE
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Chapter1. Some basic concept -- Chapter2. Representing things I: Nouns and noun group -- Chapter3. Representing things II: More on noun group -- Chapter4. Doing and happening I: The transitivity of action processes -- Chapter5. Doing and happening II: Ergativity, phrasal verbs and phase -- Chapter6. Seeing, liking, thinking, wanting and saying: The transitivity of mental and verbal processes -- Chapter7. Being and having: The transitivity of relational and existential processes -- Chapter8. Representing time: Tense and temporal adjunctions -- Chapter9. Interaction: Speech acts and mood -- Chapter10. Expressing judgements and attitudes: Modal auxiliaries and modality -- Chapter11. Organizing message: Theme and focus -- Chapter12. Combining message: Complex sentences -- Chapter13. Issues in the learning and teaching of grammar
N2  - This book presents a functional approach to grammar -- that is, grammar is viewed as a resource for creating meaning in spoken and written discourse. This is very different from the view of grammar as a set of rules, rules that are to be applied even when they seem arbitrary
ER  -