Introduction PART I: THE CLAUSE. A: TEXTUAL MEANING AND FORM What is theme?- a(nother) personal view Experiential Enhanced Theme in English Theme and Information until Shakespeare B: INTERPERSONAL MEANING AND FORM On the Concept of an Interpersonal Metafunction in English Modality and Modulation in Chinese Amplification as a Grammatical Prosody: Attitudinal Modification in the Nominal Group C: EXPERIENTIAL MEANING AND FORM Transitivity in Tagalog: a Functional Interpretation A Systemic Functional Approach to Complementation in English Turning Grammar on Itself: Identifying Clauses in Linguistic Discourse Attribution and Identification in Gooniyandi PART II: BELOW THE CLAUSE A: TIME AND TENSE Tense in English Seen Through Systemic-Functional Theory Towards a Systemic Approach to Tense and Aspect in Polish Discourse-Pragmatic Distinctions of the Past and Present in English and Spanish B: LEXIS AND THE NOMINAL GROUP Cultural Classification and System Networks: A Systemic Functional Approach to Lexical Semantics 'NGp of NGp' Constructions: a Functional-Structural Study PART III: ABOVE THE CLAUSE The Development of the Concept of Cohesive Harmony PART IV: ACROSS LANGUAGES A Fragment of a Multilingual Transfer Component and its Relation to Discourse Knowledge Author Index Subject Index