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The book provides a critical review of the traditional phraseological approach to collocations with its classical categories and its roots in structural and generative linguistics as well as traditional Russian phraseology.

Cognitive psychology --- Grammar --- Psycholinguistics --- English language --- Collocation (Linguistics) --- Functionalism (Linguistics) --- Functional analysis (Linguistics) --- Functional grammar --- Functional linguistics --- Functional-structural analysis (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Functional --- Grammatical functions --- Linguistics --- Structural linguistics --- Semantics --- Semantic prosody --- Germanic languages --- Phraseology.

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This book describes the grammar of Chinese nominal groups for the purpose of text analysis, drawing upon Halliday’s systemic functional linguistics (SFL) model. Exploring the metafunctional grammatical resources in nominal groups, the book provides a new perspective on conducting text analysis by focusing on the metafunctions performed by various elements in the nominal group. The observations on nominal groups presented here are based on both a working corpus of 180 texts of various types and a large referential corpus of over 16 billion tokens. With clear descriptions of the terminology used, the book presents a case study at the end of each major chapter, which demonstrates how the grammatical resources discussed can be applied to the delicate analysis of authentic texts. This monograph is more than a grammar book, for it offers a new way to engage with a text microscopically and enables readers to approach and analyse a text by focusing on grammatical units below the clause level. The book provides an accessible and valuable resource for readers who are interested in SFL-based typological description, text analysis, translation studies between English and Chinese, English–Chinese comparative linguistic studies, and Chinese language teaching and learning. .

Chinese language --- Functionalism (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Grammar. --- Nominals. --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Functional analysis (Linguistics) --- Functional grammar --- Functional linguistics --- Functional-structural analysis (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Functional --- Grammatical functions --- Structural linguistics --- Linguistics. --- Language acquisition. --- Literature. --- Theoretical Linguistics / Grammar. --- Language Acquisition and Development. --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Authors --- Authorship --- Interpersonal communication in children --- Psycholinguistics --- Linguistic science --- Science of language --- Language and languages

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'Non-finiteness' is a phenomenon that occurs in most natural languages, whereby a verb is not inflected by grammatical tense, and does not possess the grammatical features of aspect, mood or voice. Various theories have been developed to explain their distribution and their role in clause structure, but many instances of non-finiteness remain unaccounted for. Taking a functional approach, this study proposes a 'process relation framework' to explain the more complex, previously unaccounted for, instances of non-finiteness in clause structure. It applies the framework comparatively to non-finiteness in English and Chinese, showing how it can be applied across typologically distinct languages. Drawing on corpus-based instances and observations, it introduces numerous thought-provoking cases, in which constructional (or combining) types and the predictability of non-finiteness co-occur. In terms of application, non-finiteness is decisive in categorising language types, and it is critical in processing natural languages, text segmentation and annotation in particular.

Finiteness (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Functionalism (Linguistics) --- Systemic grammar. --- English language --- Chinese language --- Verb. --- Clauses. --- Grammar, Comparative --- Chinese. --- English. --- Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) --- Structural linguistics --- Neo-Firthian linguistics --- Scale-and-category grammar --- System-structure grammar --- Systemic linguistics --- Linguistics --- Functional analysis (Linguistics) --- Functional grammar --- Functional linguistics --- Functional-structural analysis (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Functional --- Grammatical functions --- Clauses --- Verb --- Finite (Linguistics) --- Sentences --- Syntax --- Verb phrase --- Verbals --- Reflexives --- Germanic languages --- Philology --- English --- Chinese --- Systemic grammar