Introduction

[Bob Yates]

I teach in an MA TESL program at Central Missouri State University.
I am interested in claims like the following:

Reuben Woolley wrote:

>  My dissertation was on
> the syntactic analysis of nominal groups in medical English, comparing
> X-bar Theory and Systemic Functional Grammar - the latter won!

I did not know that X-bar theory and systemic functional grammar are playing

the same game.

Bob Yates, Central Missouri State University