A Practical Guide to System Networks: Modelling Paradigmatic Relations for Language Description in Systemic...

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Dr J. R. Martin (University of Sydney, Australia) Dr Pin Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)

A Practical Guide to System Networks

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Modelling Paradigmatic Relations for Language Description in Systemic Functional Linguistics...

Dr J. R. Martin (University of Sydney, Australia), Dr Pin Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)

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Bloomsbury Academic
16 April 2026

Usage & grammar guides; linguistics

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Systemic Functional Linguistics

In Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), paradigmatic relations are formalised in system networks. This book provides a practical, step-by-step guide to designing system networks for language description, one of the key aspects of SFL theory and analysis.

Including examples from English, Chinese, Korean and Spanish, and exercises with answer keys for each of the main chapters, this book offers a broad coverage and guides learners through the process of designing system networks for the purpose of grammatical description in an accessible way.

Beginning with simple systems, the authors show how grammars involve a complex of relations, with some systems dependent on others and some working in parallel with simultaneous options. They introduce the reasoning involved in designing system networks, explaining how choices in grammatical systems are motivated in terms of their realisation in structure and how this relationship between the paradigmatic axis and the syntagmatic axis is formalised in SFL descriptions. In addition, the book helps readers to understand the theoretical architecture of SFL – including the dimensions of rank, metafunction and stratification.

With an introduction by Michael Alexander Kirkwood (M. A. K.) Halliday, who reviews the history of the development of his approach to system and structure and the use of system networks to formalise paradigmatic relations, this book is essential reading for all scholars of functional grammar and SFL. It will also appeal to researchers interested in theoretical linguistics from the perspective of the history of linguistics and different schools of linguistics.

By: Dr J. R. Martin (University of Sydney Australia), Dr Pin Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 230mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 260g
ISBN: 9781350523579
ISBN 10: 1350523577
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Systemic Functional Linguistics
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 16 April 2026
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

J. R. Martin is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia. Pin Wang is Associate Professor at the Martin Centre for Appliable Linguistics of the School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China