The Interdepency Relations in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s
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The Interdepency Relations in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Short Story Crazy Sunday
The Interdepency Relations in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Short Story Crazy Sunday

Author(s): Madalina Cerban
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Syntax
Published by: Editura Universitaria Craiova
Keywords: interdependency; clause complexes; ideational function

Summary/Abstract: The paper proposes an analysis of the interdependency relations in F. Scott Fitzgerald”s story Crazy Sunday. When we analyse the interdependency relations of a clause complex we refer to the ideational metafunction of language and to the ways in which a clause can combine with further clauses in order to form a clause complex. Clauses within complexes are interrelated grammatically in two systems, taxis and logico-semantic. In this paper we are going to discuss only the taxis system that is concerned with the interdependency relations between grammatical units forming a complex or between groups forming a group complex or between clauses forming a text. We are going to use the systemic functional approach, taking into consideration the metafunction of language, pointing out the fact that, within this approach, combined clauses do not form a grammatical unit as within the traditional approach.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 265-270
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: English