Notable keywords that were used in the search queries include, 'systemic functional linguistics AND language description'; 'SFL AND functional typology'functionalnalinguistics/grammarANDAND language description' and their variants.
Since this function is not relevant to the description of English, the authors do not discuss it in any detail, and in order to obtain a clearer understanding one must turn to descriptions of other languages and discussions of systemic functional typology more generally.
This paper proposes a categorisation of household diversity based on a functional typology of livelihood strategies, and analyses the influence of such diversity on current soil fertility status and spatial variability on a sample of 250 randomly selected farms from six districts of Kenya and Uganda.
We first discuss the conception of the relationship between linguistic theory, language description and application and then examine characteristics of systemic typology and how it interacts with and is influenced by other functional typological approaches.
The motivation for the study is to provide a state of the art review of the field in order to guide new descriptions and draw implications for further research in functional language typology, in general, and systemic typology, in particular.
It is a classic contribution to the science of language, developing on Greenberg (1966b) and research in functional language typology ever since.3 He draws linguistic data from systemic language descriptions since the 1960's and mainly from research in other functional traditions such as WCF, FDG and RRG.
Systemic typology essentially belongs to this functional-typological tradition (see further below for details).
Systemic typology, in its current development, is part of the functional-typological tradition that developed from the work of Joseph Greenberg and follows the historic Conference on Language Universals (cf. Greenberg 1966a).
In this light, it takes its goals from Prague school typology and interacts closely with other functional approaches to typology that descends from the Greenbergian tradition of the 1960's.
We use the term 'functional language typology' as an umbrella term for all functional approaches to typology.
In many parts, the paper also discusses other functional approaches to typology and shows how these interact with and contribute to the growing body of studies in systemic functional language typology (hereafter, 'systemic typology').
