Robin Fawcett

{{Infobox scientist | image = | image_size = | caption = | other_names = | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1937}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | citizenship = | nationality = | ethnicity =  | field = Linguistics | work_institutions = | alma_mater = | doctoral_advisor = | doctoral_students = | known_for = Cardiff grammar in systemic functional linguistics | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | prizes = | footnotes = | signature = | spouse = }} '''Robin P. Fawcett''' (born 1937) is a British linguist known as the main exponent of the Cardiff grammar in systemic functional linguistics.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Andersen|first1=Thomas Hestbaek|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q2msBwAAQBAJ&dq=%22robin+fawcett%22+%22cardiff+grammar%22&pg=PT233|title=Social Semiotics: Key Figures, New Directions|last2=Boeriis|first2=Morten|last3=Maagerø|first3=Eva|last4=Tonnessen|first4=Elise Seip|date=2015-03-27|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-44786-3|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last1=Huang|first1=Guowen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9tf9xQEACAAJ|title=Approaches to Systemic Functional Grammar: Convergence and Divergence|last2=Fontaine|first2=Lise|last3=Tucker|first3=Gordon H.|last4=McDonald|first4=Edward|date=2020|publisher=Equinox Publishing Limited|isbn=978-1-78179-686-3|language=en}}</ref> He is Emeritus Professor at Cardiff University.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2011|title=What is a Systemic Functional Grammar, and how does it work? A description and an interactive demonstration|url=http://hallidaycentre.cityu.edu.hk/07_event_2011.html|access-date=2022-01-07|website=Halliday Centre for Intelligent Applications of Language Studies}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last1=Johansson|first1=Stig|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=olXnbA-uRFwC&dq=%22robin+fawcett+is%22+%22cardiff%22&pg=PA33|title=English Computer Corpora: Selected Papers and Research Guide|last2=Stenström|first2=Anna-Brita|date=2011-08-25|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|isbn=978-3-11-086596-7|language=en}}</ref>

== Selected bibliography == '''Books'''

* ''Cognitive Linguistics and Social Interaction'' (1980) * ''Invitation to Systemic Functional Linguistics through the Cardiff Grammar'' (1997) * ''A theory of syntax for systemic functional linguistics'' (2000)

'''Papers'''

* 'The semantics of clause and verb for relational processes in English' (1987) * 'What makes a "good" system network good?' (1988) * 'A generationist approach to grammar reversibility in Natural Language Processing' (1994) * 'A Systemic Functional approach to complementation in English' (1996) * 'On the subject of the Subject in English: two positions on its meaning (and on how to test for it)' (1999) * 'In place of Halliday's "verbal group"' (2000)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fawcett, Robin}} Category:Academics of Cardiff University Category:Semanticists Category:Syntacticians Category:Linguists from England Category:Systemic functional linguistics Category:Linguists of English Category:20th-century British linguists Category:21st-century British linguists Category:Computational linguistics researchers Category:1937 births Category:Living people