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Systemic-Functional Grammar
3.1 Systemic Grammar
The central ponent of a systemic grammar is a chart of the full set of choices available in constructing a sentence, with a specification of the relationships between choices.
On a very general level, there is the Axis of Choice and the Axis of Chain:
Axis of Choice
Axis of Chain
Explanations:
(1) The axis of chain deals with the surface aspects of grammar, such as sentence structures, linguistic units, and their ranks (sentence, clause, group, word, and morpheme).
His Systemic-Functional Grammar has had great effect on various disciplines related to language, such as language teaching, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, stylistics, and machine translation.
Language is inseparable from social activities of man. Thus, it takes actual uses of language as the object of study, in opposition to Chomsky’s TG Grammar which takes the ideal speaker’s linguistic petence as the object of study.