Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen is professor of linguistics at Complutense University of Madrid.Kazuhiro Teruya has previously taught at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, PRC and at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He was also involved in the Language-based Intelligent Systems project at the Brain Science Institute, RIKEN, in Japan.Kaela Peijia Zhang is a lecturer in the Department of English at Hang Seng University of Hong Kong.Diana Slade is a professor of applied linguistics and director of the Institute for Communication in Health Care at the Australian National University.

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• ForewordDavid ButtEditorial IntroductionKazuhiro Teruya, Kaela Peijia Zhang, and Diana SladeIntroductionChristian M.I.M. Matthiessen1. A Grammar and a Lexicon for a Text-Production System2. Systemic Grammar in Computation: The NIGEL Case3. Semantics for a Systemic Grammar: The Chooser and Inquiry Framework4. Two Approaches to Semantic Interfaces in Text Generation5. Metafunctional Complementarity and Resonance in Syntagmatic Organization6. Fuzziness Construed in Language: A Linguistic Perspective7. On the Idea of Theory-Neutral Descriptions8. Interview with Christian Matthiessen (Cardiff, 1998)9. Halliday’s Conception of Language as a Probabilistic System10. Instantial Systems and Logogenesis11. Systemic Functional Morphology: The Lexicogrammar of the Word12. The Architecture of Language According to SFL: Some Reflections on Implications for Neurosemiotics