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Curme, George O.

1931 Syntax, a Grammar of the English Language, 3, Boston: Heath.

Dillon, George.

1981 Constructing Texts, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.

Eiler, Mary Ann.

1986 "Thematic Distribution as a Heuristic for Written Discourse Function." in Functional Approaches to Writing: Research Perspectives, pp. 49-68, Barbara Couture (ed.), Norwood, N.J.: Ablex.

Fries, Peter H.

1983 "On the Status of Theme in English: Arguments from Discourse." in Micro and Macro Connexity of Texts, pp. 116-52, J. S. Petofi and E. Sozer (eds.), Hamburg: Helmut Buske.

Halliday, Michael A. K.

1967 "Notes on Transitivity and Theme in English, Part 2." Journal of Linguistics 3.199-244.

1985 Spoken and Written Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

1994 Introduction to Functional Grammar, 2nd ed. London: Edward Arnold.

Halliday, Michael A. K. and Ruqaiya Hasan.

1976 Cohesion in English, London: Longman.

Jespersen, Otto.

1933 Essentials of English Grammar, London: Allen and Unwin.

Kies, Daniel.

1985a "Some Stylistic Features of Business and Technical Writing: The Functions of Passive Voice, Nominalization, and Agency." Journal of Technical Writing and Communication 15.299-308.

1985b "Gradience in English Grammar." in The Thirteenth LACUS Forum, pp. 199-208. Ilah Fleming (ed.), Lake Bluff, IL: Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States.

1986 "Marked and Unmarked Themes in English: Their Meaning and Distribution in Discourse." in Pragmatics, Discourse, and Text, pp. 47-75, Erich Steiner and Robert Veltman (eds.), London: Pinter.

1990 "Indeterminacy in Sentence Structure." Linguistics and Education 2.321-58.

Matthews. P. H.

1981 Syntax, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Quirk, Randolph; Sidney Greenbaum; Geoffrey Leech; and Jan Svartvik.

1985 A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language, London: Longman.

van Dijk, Teun.

1977 Text and Context, London: Longman.

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