Showing posts with label John Mortimer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Mortimer. Show all posts

Saturday, 17 December 2022

'As Usual' vs 'Usually'


as usual serves as a comment Adjunct of the type 'predictable'.
See Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 191).

Monday, 7 November 2022

An Enclosed Structurally Unrelated Clause

Mr Minter, 'Call me Ted', was  a large, untidy, perpetually smiling man with the look of an astute rabbit.
— John Mortimer Rumpole And The Asylum Seekers


One way to analyse the enclosed clause as structurally related is to take the view from below. Because it is realised as its own tone group (TONALITY) and realised by tone concord with what precedes (TONE), the enclosed clause is realised as if it were in non-defining elaborating relationship with the surrounding clause. Such an interpretation, though, requires treating the clause that projected it as ellipsed.

Sunday, 9 December 2018

Emotion-Imbued Cognitive Projection


I am unable to look at my customer in the dock
without feeling
there but for the Grace of God goes Horace Rumpole
α
+ β
1
' 2


I
am unable to look
at my customer in the dock
Behaver
Process: behavioural
Location: orientation

without
feeling

Process: mental: cognition

there
but for the Grace of God
goes
Horace Rumpole
Theme: marked
Rheme
Location
Contingency: default
Process: material
Actor
Attribute: circumstantial
Process: relational
Carrier
Adjunct
Adjunct
Predicator
Finite
Subject
Residue
Mood


The above analysis assumes the Mood Tag would be doesn't he (rather than doesn't there).
This analysis is supported by the phonological salience of there.