Showing posts with label Scope. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scope. Show all posts

Sunday, 16 January 2022

'Together' As Circumstance


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

Monday, 17 June 2019

Scope Or Goal?


the species
evolved
wings
Actor
Process: material
Scope: entity

This construes wings as the domain over which the Process takes place.

If wings were interpreted as Goal, it would construe the species as the cause (Agent) of the Process evolved.