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Notes on transitivity and theme in English Part I

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

M. A. K. Halliday
M. A. K. Halliday
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Department of General Linguistics, University College, London W.C.1
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It is planned to publish this paper in three parts, in this and the two subsequent issues of the Journal of Linguistics. The three parts will consist respectively of the numbered sections 1–3, 4–7 and 8–10; references to section 4 onwards are thus to forthcoming parts of the paper. Sections 1–3 contain observations concerning transitivity; 4–7 deal with what is here referred to as ‘theme’, a general term for all those choices involving the distribution of information in the clause; in 8–10, transitivity is reconsidered in the light of certain further problems and of what has been said about theme, and some generalization is attempted.

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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , April 1967 , pp. 37 - 81
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1967

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