English Tense and Aspect in Halliday's Systemic Functional Grammar

Focusing on functional linguistics, the book critiques the standard account of tense and aspect in English as presented by Halliday and Matthiessen. Through evidence from a corpus linguistics project, the author argues that their framework does not meet established functionalist criteria, highlighting the need for revision and expansion. Aimed at practitioners and researchers, it encourages a reevaluation of existing theories in the field.