Books in the Equinox Textbooks & Surveys in Linguistics series

An Introduction to English Sentence Structure puts the study of English sentences into the meaningful perspective provided by the broad essentials of functionalism.

This book offers an updated introduction to Relational Network Theory (RNT), a neurocognitive model of language compatible with systemic-functional tenets. It describes and illustrates the logical types of relations found in a linguistic network.

Whether prose or poetry, how does a text come to mean what it does? A functional-semantic approach to text analysis, such as is illustrated in this book, offers a revealing look at the resources of language at work in the creation of meaning, and a unique perspective on the text as object of study.

An introduction to genre analysis from the perspective of the 'Sydney School' of functional linguistics.

Designed to enable clinicians and clinicians in training to become sensitive to a wide range of language phenomena that are important for the diagnosis, treatment and research of psychiatric disorders, this work deals with the major categories of syndromes in psychiatry which have language as an important characterizing feature.

An introduction to the English spoken in Ireland, its most characteristic features, and its historical development. It looks at the specific examples where substratum from Irish can be observed, and analyses other features unique to Irish English, from different perspectives. It contains exercises and practical activities with each chapter.