 metaphors.
&gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt; In summary, this book makes a strong case for the systemic approach as a fruitful
&gt; &gt; alternative to Chomsky's view of autonomous syntax.  The authors demonstrate that
&gt; &gt; semantics has important structures that are cross-linguistic and formalizable.
&gt; &gt; Although they present their data with the terminology, notation, and viewpoint
&gt; &gt; of the systemic-functional approach, their analyses, distinctions, and categories
&gt; &gt; can be adapted to semantic