Friday, 13 December 2013

Idea Clause Projected By Impinging Mental Process Clause


it
struck
her
that
God
is
a metaphor
Subject
Finite/Predicator
Complement
Subject
Finite
Complement

Process: mental: cognition
Senser
Carrier
Process: relational
Attribute

cf

it
surprised
her
that God is a metaphor
Sub-
Finite/Predicator
Complement
-ject
Pheno-
Process: mental: emotion (?)
Senser
-menon


Note that difference here lies in the fact that, in the first example, the mental clause projects the attributive clause into "semiotic existence", whereas in the second example, the attributive clause already existed as a pre-projected fact which caused the Senser to be surprised.

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