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&gt; &gt; In this book, Halliday and Matthiessen present a comprehensive survey
&gt; &gt; of semantics and its relationships to syntax and cognition.  Although
&gt; &gt; they present their subject from a systemic-functional point of view,
&gt; &gt; they show how their approach is related to a wide range of work in both
&gt; &gt; computational and theoretical linguistics.  One notable omission from
&gt; &gt; their 23-page bibliography is Noam Chomsky, whose period of active
&gt; &gt; research almost exac