Adnominals are an important resource of noun modification in written registers, especially in
academic writing. This study compares the frequencies of adjectival adnominals and …

This paper focuses on Tagalog nominal groups and the way they are used in a children's
picture book narrative. Its purpose is two-fold. On the one hand it presents an analysis of …

In this paper, we examine how nominal groups in Mandarin Chinese are involved in the
realization of experiential grammatical metaphors, drawing on data from a history textbook …

This paper considers the nominal group in Sundanese, a Malayo-Polynesian language of
West Java, Indonesia, through Systemic Functional Linguistics. In particular, it builds a …

This chapter explores nominal grammar resources in Pitjantjatjara, an Indigenous language
of Australia's Western Desert. Data for the description comes primarily from recordings of …

Research has established the critical role grammatical metaphor (GM) plays in academic
discourse and argues for its explicit instruction. However, despite a growing body of …

This paper presents a study on nominal groups in Serbian grounded in systemic functional
grammar (SFG). Its aim is to complement traditional and formal descriptions of nominal …

This book provides a comprehensive overview of approaches to problems of language
learning, aimed at graduate students and researchers interested in English for academic …

In this paper we revisit the association of types of structure with modes of meaning in
systemic functional linguistics (SFL). Focusing mainly on nominal group grammar, we argue …

This paper presents a text-based comparative study of the construal of entities through
nominal groups in Lhasa Tibetan and Mandarin Chinese. It approaches the grammatical …