Fawcett (2010: 293-4):
As we end the present book, I should remind you that Appendix A describes a very small generative grammar that illustrates the 'two-level' model whose essential structure is common to both theories. Appendix B gives you a much fuller — though still incomplete — picture of the central units of English syntax, their internal structures, and the probabilities for each of filling various elements of a higher unit in the tree. In their different ways, the two appendices give a foretaste of two of the further books that are expected to appear soon.
Appendix B is taken from my Functional Syntax Handbook: Analysing English at the level of form. (Fawcett, in press), and it can be regarded as a summary of some of the central parts of that work. However, before you try to use it for the analysis of texts, it would be better to have available the clarifications and explanations given in the full work. This consists of a full description of English syntax in terms of the theory presented here. It is both (1) a 'fast track' course book and (2) a reference work that can be consulted by those analysing the structure of text-sentences in functional terms at all levels, including the level of postgraduate research. It provides a very full coverage of English, including several aspects of syntax that are not covered in other frameworks (some of which are introduced here in Chapter 10).
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[1] See the examinations of Appendix A and Appendix B to follow.
[2] To be clear, these promised works are still unpublished, 21 years after the first edition of this book.
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