Fawcett's Final Three Promises

Fawcett (2010: 294):

In due course I intend to publish, with colleagues, at least three further books. One will give a full account of the generative version of the Cardiff Grammar, as implemented (in Prolog) in the computer. The other, to be jointly written with Huang Guowen, will provide an in-depth treatment of the generation of one of the more challenging constructions in English. It is the one exemplified in It is this book that gives you the best picture of how we see the various components of language generation working together in the production of a text-sentence, and it describes every component that is required, from the belief system, through the discourse planner to the sentence planner that incorporates the lexicogrammar. In due course I also hope to write an introductory book about the Cardiff Grammar with Gordon Tucker, drawing especially on Tucker (1998) and the two handbooks. Our hope is that this set of books will provide both a full guide to analysing texts in functional terms at the levels of both form and meaning, and a theoretical-generative account of a modern systemic functional model of language.

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To be clear, 21 years after the first edition of this book, these promised works are still unpublished.

This completes the examination of the body of Fawcett's work. The posts that follow examine the three Appendices.