English tense and aspect in Halliday's systemic functional grammar: a critical appraisal and an alternative

This book is aimed at fellow practitioners and researchers in functional linguistics.

It offers a friendly but critical appraisal of a major component of the 'standard' version of SFL, i.e. the account given by Halliday and Matthiessen of tense and aspect in English.

Supporting his criticisms with evidence from a project in corpus linguistics, Bache suggests that this account fails in several ways to satisfy accepted functionalist criteria, and hence needs revising and extending.