Monday, 21 March 2016

Beneficiaries In Existential Clauses

Halliday and Matthiessen (2014: 345):
The Beneficiary is the one to whom or for whom the process is said to take place. It appears in ‘material’ and ‘verbal’ clauses, and occasionally in ‘relational’ ones. (In other words, there are no Beneficiaries in ‘mental’, ‘behavioural’ or ‘existential’ clauses.)

there
is
a present
(just) for you
under the christmas tree


Process:
existential
Medium
Existent
Beneficiary

Location

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