Saturday, 28 February 2015

What We Are Verbally

we
are
what we say
Value
Process: identifying: intensive
Token
Verbiage
Sayer
Process: verbal


Our identity encodes us by reference to what we say
and decodes what we say by reference to us.

Friday, 27 February 2015

What We Are Mentally


we
are
what we know/desire/feel/perceive
Value
Process: identifying: intensive
Token
Phenomenon
Senser
Process: mental



Our identity encodes us by reference to what we know/desire/feel/perceive 
and decodes what we know/desire/feel/perceive by reference to us.

Thursday, 26 February 2015

What We Are Possessively

we
are
what we own
Value
Process: identifying: intensive
Token
Value
Token
Process: identifying: possessive


Our identity encodes us by reference to what we own
and decodes what we own by reference to us.

Tuesday, 24 February 2015

Predicated Theme Vs Postposed Subject


it
‘s
your good luck
that
nobody
noticed
Sub-
Finite
Complement
-ject
Identi…
Process
Identifier
…fied


Ambiguously:


(a) Predicated Theme (agnate to nobody noticed your good luck)


it
‘s
your good luck
that
nobody
noticed
Theme: predicated
Rheme




(b) Postposed Subject (agnate to the fact that nobody noticed is your good luck)

it
‘s
your good luck
that
nobody
noticed
Theme
Rheme
Afterthought


See Halliday & Matthiessen (2004: 97-8).