Monday, 3 August 2015

Encoding Relation Realised As Existential Clause



there
’s
during volleyball camp and during the two games [[we play against them during the season]]

Process: existential
Existent

 cf. the more congruent:

the times
are
during volleyball camp and during the two games [[we play against them during the season]]
Value/Identified
Process: identifying
Token/Identifier

Sunday, 2 August 2015

Operative Decoding Clause With Anaphoric Reference

Then he felt a pulse of excitement at the thought that it might truly be Guy Vexille who rode unsuspecting towards the fight. “If it is Vexille,” Sir Guillaume said, … “then he’s mine to kill.”


if
it
is
Vexille

Token/Identified
Process: identifying
Value/Identifier

ref: anaphoric



The identity decodes it (who rode unsuspecting towards the fightby reference to Vexille.
Vexille identifies it (who rode unsuspecting towards the fight) — so identifying.
it (who rode unsuspecting towards the fightis not a member of the class Vexille — so not attributive.