Halliday & Matthiessen (2004: 251-2):
The verb watch is anomalous: in I’m watching you, the tense suggests a behavioural process but the you appears as a participant, like the Phenomenon of a ‘mental’ clause. Since this is restricted to watch, we can label this participant as Phenomenon, indicating the ‘mental’ analogue.
The philosopher
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is watching
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The Meaning Of Life
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Behaver
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Process: behavioural
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Phenomenon
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The philosopher
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is meditating
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on the meaning of life
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Behaver
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Process: behavioural
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Matter
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but:
The philosopher
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is contemplating
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the meaning of life
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Senser
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Process: mental
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Phenomenon
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Halliday &
Matthiessen (2004: 450-1):
… mental clauses representing an ‘undecided’ state of mind are used to project indirect questions. These include clauses of wondering and doubting, finding out and checking, and contemplating, which tend to be characterised by special lexical verbs such as wonder, ascertain …
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