Showing posts with label Interrogative. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Interrogative. Show all posts
Sunday, 16 April 2023
Thursday, 10 February 2022
Friday, 11 December 2020
Tagged Imperative Or Metaphorical Interrogative?
The first analysis treats this instance as a tagged imperative clause, whereas the second treats it as an interpersonal metaphor of mood: a command realised as polar interrogative clause. Cf
This raises the question as to whether the tagging of the imperative facilitated the genesis of the metaphorical variant.
Tuesday, 18 April 2017
A "Thereless" Existential Interrogative
Why
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are
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people
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Cause: reason
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Process: existential
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Existent
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(The title of the first chapter of Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene.)
Monday, 27 March 2017
Theme In An Interrogative Projection Nexus
| who | << did | you | say >> | was | arrested |
Theme
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Rheme
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See Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 102).
Monday, 21 November 2016
Requesting The Encoding Of A Value By Reference To A Token
what
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do
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you
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call
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them
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Identifier Token
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Process:
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Assigner
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relational: identifying: intensive
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Identified Value
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Agent1
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Agent2
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Medium
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we
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call
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them
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ducks
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Assigner
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Process
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Identified Value
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Identifier Token
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Agent2
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Medium
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Agent1
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they
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are called
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ducks
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Identified Value
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Process
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Identifier Token
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Medium
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Agent
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Cf. Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 287).
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