Saturday 19 March 2016

'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

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