the living area
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extends
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from the lounge room to the billiard room
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Carrier
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Process: circumstantial
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circumstantial Attribute
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the living area
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has been extended
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from the lounge room to the billiard room
|
Carrier
|
Process: circumstantial
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circumstantial Attribute
|
the living area
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has been extended
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from the lounge room to the billiard room
|
by the new owners
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Carrier
|
Process: circumstantial
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circumstantial Attribute
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Attributor
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the new owners
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have extended
|
the living area
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from the lounge room to the billiard room
|
Attributor
|
Process: circumstantial
|
Carrier
|
circumstantial Attribute
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However, ASSIGNMENT is a system that is restricted to intensive relations. Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 288):
Both ‘identifying’ and ‘attributive’ clauses of the ‘intensive’ kind have the option of ASSIGNMENT: they may be configured with a third participant representing the entity assigning the relationship of identity of attribution – for example, they in they made Mary the leader and they made Mary happy. In the case of ‘identifying’ clauses, this is the Assigner; in the case of ‘attributing’ clauses, this is the Attributor. In a ‘receptive’ clause, this participant may be left implicit.
If this is true, then it suggests a different analysis of the 'assigned' clauses above. Given what would be the unmarked present tense, these clauses are material:
- the new owners are extending the living area from the lounge room to the billiard room, not
- the new owners extend the living area from the lounge room to the billiard room.
On this basis, the analyses are reinterpreted as follows:
the living area
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extends
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from the lounge room to the billiard room
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Carrier
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Process: relational
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circumstantial Attribute
|
the living area
|
has been extended
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from the lounge room to the billiard room
|
Goal
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Process: material
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Extent
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the living area
|
has been extended
|
from the lounge room to the billiard room
|
by the new owners
|
Goal
|
Process: material
|
Extent
|
Actor
|
the new owners
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have extended
|
the living area
|
from the lounge room to the billiard room
|
Actor
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Process: material
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Goal
|
Extent
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