Projected Vs Elaborating Qualifier

the	theory		of (‘about’) evolution
Deictic	Thing	‘	Qualifier

the	theory		of (‘called’) Natural Selection
Deictic	Thing	=	Qualifier

decoding ‘the theory’ operatively:

the theory	covers	evolution
Token/Identified	Process: relational: circumstantial: matter	Value/Identifier

encoding ‘the theory’ receptively:

the theory	is called	Natural Selection
Value/Identified	Process: relational: intensive	Token/Identifier

Beneficiaries In Existential Clauses

Halliday and Matthiessen (2014: 345):

The Beneficiary is the one to whom or for whom the process is said to take place. It appears in ‘material’ and ‘verbal’ clauses, and occasionally in ‘relational’ ones. (In other words, there are no Beneficiaries in ‘mental’, ‘behavioural’ or ‘existential’ clauses.)

there	is	a present	(just) for you	under the christmas tree
	Process: existential	Medium Existent	Beneficiary	Location

'Smoke' Serving As Material (Not Behavioural) Process

A little fat man of Bombay	was smoking	his pipe	one very hot day
Agent Actor	Process: material	Medium Goal	Location

Blogger Comment:

In Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 649), this type of clause is erroneously analysed as behavioural, even though pipe is not a (physiological or psychological) Behaviour, and Medium not Range:

… the words pipe and smoke are typically related as Range to Process in a behavioural process clause.

'Prove' Serving As Attributive (Not Identifying) Process

this	proves (‘makes true’)		my point
Attributor	Process: attributive	Attribute	Carrier

Blogger Comment:

In Deploying Functional Grammar (Martin et al. 2010: 123), this is erroneously (and bizarrely) analysed as follows:

this	proves	(that)	my point
Assigner	Process: identifying	Token	Value