Choice in GrammarA Systemic Overview
ISSN: 0214-9141
Año de publicación: 1997
Volumen: 9
Páginas: 17-25
Tipo: Artículo
Otras publicaciones en: Sintagma: Revista de lingüística
Resumen
The wide range of linguistic theories available nowadays encourages metatheoretical studies of all kinds. However, linguists are not always aware of the weight of the theories they propose and the influence they exert on other models. The aim of this article has been to assess the importance of choice within Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) from a metatheoretical point of view. The paper explores the fundamental consequences of the orientation of grammar as ``language as choice''. Two main fields will be examined, namely: the general ontological principles underlying SFG (section 2) and the interaction between the theoretical object and the theory itself (section 3).