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Here's reference to a site that has links to other SFL info. Hope
this<br>
helps. Your questions could be the topic of several very
interesting<br>
thesies and dissertaions. Also, the SFL community is very open
to<br>
questions like yours. <br>
Good luck.<br>
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<a href="http://fricka.glendon.yorku.ca:8008/sssfl2000a.nsf?open">http://fricka.glendon.yorku.ca:8008/sssfl2000a.nsf?open</a><br>
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C. Konig<br>
Program in Language and Social Interaction<br>
Department of Communication Studies<br>
The University of Texas at Austin<br>
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At 03:11 PM 3/25/00 -0800, you wrote:<br>
>Dear all,<br>
><br>
>I am undergraduate student at Stanford University who is writing an
honors<br>
>thesis on subordinate clauses in narratives found in EFL textbooks
vs. ESL<br>
>textbooks. I have been coding my texts, based upon the methods
of<br>
>functional grammar, but just recently realized that functional
grammar<br>
>and the traditional generative, transformational grammar are two
entirely<br>
>different approaches to syntax. I am thinking of including a
brief<br>
>discussion of this in my thesis. Could anybody clarify for me what
exactly<br>
>are the differences between the two types of analyses? I appreciate
your<br>
>help.<br>
><br>
>Sincerely,<br>
>Juno Nakamura<br>
>Junior, Linguistics<br>
>Stanford University<br>
>(650)497-6877<br>
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