Table 4 Studies on language description and typology based on systemic functional theory (1969–2014)^a

Akan

Matthiessen (1987a, b)

Arabic

Aziz (1988)

Eddaikra and Tench (1992)

Bardi (2008)

Bagri

Ram (2008)^b

Bajjika

Kumar (2009); Kashyap (2008, 2012)

Beja

Hudson (1973)

Chinese

Long (1981)

Halliday (1992; 1993); McDonald (1992), Lock (1992)

Fang et al. (1995) Huang and Fawcett (1996)

Halliday and McDonald (2004); Tam (2004); Halliday (2005a); Li (2005, 2007); Yang (2007); Fang (2008)

Yang (2011); Ochi and Lam (2010)^b; He and Ma (2012); He and Zhang (2012)

Halliday (2014); Yang (2014); Yali and Liu (2014)

Danish

Andersen et al. (2001)

Andersen (2004); Andersen and Smedegaard (2005);

Dutch

Degand (1996)^b

Finnish

Shore (1992)

Shore (1996)

French

Huddleston et al. (1969)

Caffarel (1990, 1992)

Caffarel (1995, 1996, 1997); Degand (1996)^b

Caffarel (2000)

Caffarel (2004, 2006)

Banks (2010)

German

Steiner and Ramm (1995)

Steiner and Teich (2004), Holsting (2008); Schulz (2008)

Gooniyandi

McGregor (1990, 1992a, b)

McGregor (1996)

Modern Greek

Thoma (2008)

Indonesian

Indah (1985), Sutjaja (1988)

Japanese

Teruya (1998)

Teruya (2004, 2007); Hori (2006); Tatsuki (2008)

Thomson (2005); Ogi (2009); Thomson (2013); Thomson and Armour (2013b); Ochi and Marvin (2010)^b; Fukui (2013); Hayakawa (2013)

Javanese

Susanto (2008)

Kate

Martin (1983) ^b

Korean

Kim (2007); Shin and Kim (2008)

Choi (2013); Park (2013)

Mbembe

Barnwell (1969)

Mekeo

Jones (2008)

Norwegian

Hasselgård (2004)

Nyulnyul

McGregor (1994)

Nzema

Mock (1969)

Oko

Akerejola (2005, 2008)

Persian

Bahman (2009)

Pitjantjatjara

Rose (1993)

Rose (1996, 1998)^c

Rose (2001)^c

Rose (2004a, b)

Portuguese

Figueredo (2011)

Punjabi

Ram (2008)^b

Spanish

Downing (1996); Lavid and Arús (1998); Mundays (1998)

McCabe (1999); Mundays (2000); Murcia-Bielsa (2000); Arús (2003)

Arús (2004, 2008); Castel (2008); Lavid and Arus (2004); Quiroz (2008);

Lavid et al. (2010); Arús (2010); Quiroz (2013)

Swahili

Maw (1992)

Swedish

Holmberg (2006)

Tagalog

Martin (1981, 1983)^b

Martin (1990)

Martin (1995, 1996a, b)

Martin (2004)

Telugu

Prakasam (1972)

Prakasam (1976)

Prakasam (1979)

Prakasam (1987)

Prakasam (1992)

Prakasam (2004)

Thai

Patpong (2006a, b)

Various

Teich (2002)

Matthiessen (2004); Matthiessen et al. (2008); Teruya et al. (2007)

Wang and Xu (2013)

Vietnamese

Vân Hoàng (1997); Thai (1998)

Thai (2004)

Welsh

Kelly (1992)

Weri

Boxwell (1990)

Boxwell (1995)

Zapotec

Mock (1985)