Qualifiers in english and vietnamese nominal groups a systemic functional comparison

TABLE OF CONTENTS

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

Part 1: INTRODUCTION

Part 2: DEVELOPMENT

CHAPTER 1: THEORETICAL BACKGROUND

1.1. Schools of grammar

1.1.1. Traditional grammar

1.1.2. Systemic functional grammar

1.2. Basic syntactical notions

1.2.1. Words

1.2.2 Phrases

1.2.3 Clauses

1.3 Nominal clauses

1.3.1. Traditional grammar

1.3.2 Functional grammar

1.4. Qualifiers

CHAPTER 2: QUALIFIERS IN THE ENGLISH NOMINAL GROUP

2.1. Structure of nominal groups (functional grammar)

2.2. Elements that act as Qualifiers in English nominal groups

2.2.1. Words

2.2.2. Phrases

2.2.3. Clauses

2.3. Summary

CHAPTER 3: QUALIFIERS IN THE VIETNAMESE NOMINAL GROUP IN COMPARISON WITH QUALIFIERS IN THE ENGLISH NOMINAL GROUP

3.1 Comparison of words as qualifiers in English and Vietnamese nominal groups

3.2. Comparison of phrases as qualifiers in English and Vietnamese nominal groups

3.2.1. Comparison of prepositional phrases

3.2.2. Comparison of adjectival phrases

3.2.3. Comparison of adverbial phrases

3.3. Comparison of clauses as qualifiers in English and Vietnamese nominal groups

3.3.1. Comparison of finite relative clauses

3.3.2. Comparison of non-finite relative clauses

3.4 Summary

PART 3: CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS

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