Sunday, 9 December 2012

Creative Happenings Metaphorically Realised As Quoting Clause Nexus

the tyres
went
'screech!'

the little engine
went
'wheeee!’

the car
went
'bang!'

Sayer
Process: verbal

metaphorical
1
“2
Actor
Process: material
Scope
congruent


In Deploying Functional Grammar, these processes are analysed as behavioural rather than verbal, because 'it is not possible to have a Receiver in these clauses' (p125). This is despite the fact that these processes project and in a footnote (p124), the inability to project is used as a criterion for preferring a behavioural analysis over a verbal one.

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