About Robin Fawcett
Born 1937. Robin Fawcett is a British university teacher, linguist and communication scholar, known for Systemic functional linguistics.
Robin P. Fawcett (born 1937) is a British linguist known as the main exponent of the Cardiff grammar in systemic functional linguistics. He is Emeritus Professor at Cardiff University.
Selected bibliography Books
Cognitive Linguistics and Social Interaction (1980) Invitation to Systemic Functional Linguistics through the Cardiff Grammar (1997) A theory of syntax for systemic functional linguistics (2000)
Papers
'The semantics of clause and verb for relational processes in English' (1987) 'What makes a "good" system network good?' (1988) 'A generationist approach to grammar reversibility in Natural Language Processing' (1994) 'A Systemic Functional approach to complementation in English' (1996) 'On the subject of the Subject in English: two positions on its meaning (and on how to test for it)' (1999) 'In place of Halliday's "verbal group"' (2000)
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Who is Robin Fawcett?
British linguist
When was Robin Fawcett born?
Robin Fawcett was born in 1937 in Sedbergh.
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Robin Fawcett is a university teacher, linguist and communication scholar.
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Robin Fawcett is known for Systemic functional linguistics.
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