On the Complementation between Systemic-functional Grammar and Transformational Grammar

Both Systemic-Functional Grammar and Transformational Grammar have their limits in dealing with language phenomena,thus it is crucial to have them complementary to each other.As both of these two schools study language from the perspective of language forms for the language structure and meaning respectively,there is theoretical basis for this complementation.The conventional grammar is inefficient in describing and elucidating the scope of negation.Systemic-Functional Grammar and Transformational Grammar cater respectively for explication to this problem from the perspectives of semantics and syntax.Therefore the explanatory adequacy to language phenomena is realizable only when we seek both Transformational Grammar for syntactic analysis and Systemic-Functional Grammar for semantic analysis.The complementation between Systemic-Functional Grammar and Transformational Grammar may help to unfold many problems that traditional grammar is incompetent to deal with,thus this complementation may contribute to both the theoretical linguistics and the reform of language teaching.