Saturday 25 November 2017

Medium As Indirect Participant


she
was overheard
by the thought police
Range
Process
Medium


Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 312):
We can make a contrast, then, between direct and indirect participants, using ‘indirect participant’ to refer to the status of a nominal group that is inside a prepositional phrase … the participant rôles of (1) Client, Recipient and Receiver [i.e. Beneficiary] and (2) Scope, Behaviour and Verbiage [i.e. Range] are sometimes expressed ‘indirectly’ in this sense …

Monday 6 November 2017

Interpersonal 'Between'


Between you and me
the hand-waver and the mentally ill guy
were
talking
absolute rubbish
comment Adjunct: secrecy
Subject
Finite
Predicator
Complement

Mood
Residue

Friday 3 November 2017

Non-Spatiotemporal 'Between'



they
drank
all the wine
between them
Actor
Process
Goal
Accompaniment


the contest
is
between British and Iraqi lawn bowlers
Carrier
Process
Attribute: circumstantial: accompaniment


Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 324):
Accompaniment is a form of joint participation in the process and represents the meanings ‘and’, ‘or’, ‘not’ as circumstantials;