Sunday, 30 October 2016

Numerative Preceding Post-Deictic



many
self-styled
anarchists
Numerative
post-Deictic
Thing

Halliday & Matthiessen (2004: 316; 2014: 373).

Thursday, 27 October 2016

How To Spend Time


they
spend
most of their time
swimming
up to 10 hours
every day
a
x b (manner)
Actor
Process: material
Scope
Process: material
Extent: duration
Extent: frequency

Monday, 24 October 2016

Negative Judgement As Marked Theme


Foolish
are
those who think a clause can have both a marked and an unmarked Theme
Theme: marked
Rheme
Attribute
Process: relational
Carrier
Complement
Finite
Subject
Residue
Mood

Saturday, 22 October 2016

Decoding A Graphological Token By Reference To A Phonetic Value

the letter ‘a’ in ‘cat’
represents
[æ]
Identified / Token
Process: identifying
Identifier / Value


we
pronounce
the letter ‘a’ in ‘cat’
as
[æ]
Assigner
Process: identifying
Identified / Token

Identifier / Value