Showing posts with label Behaviour. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Behaviour. Show all posts

Friday, 10 October 2025

'Enjoy Oneself' As Behavioural

The clause is agnate with he is enjoying [[what he is doing]].

The unmarked present tense is 'present in present', like behavioural, rather than mental clauses (cf. he likes [[what he is doing]]).

Here 'enjoy' adds an emotional feature to a behavioural Process.

Wednesday, 13 April 2022

'Portray' As Relational Process


In Deploying Functional Grammar (Martin, Matthiessen & Painter 2010: 124), portray is interpreted as a behavioural process, despite it occurring in effective clauses, and despite its Range not being a behaviour.

Tuesday, 19 October 2021