Tuesday, 15 March 2016

'Prescribe' Serving As Material (Not Behavioural) Process


doctors
prescribe
antibiotics
quickly
Medium
Actor
Process:
material
Range
Scope
Manner



Blogger Comment:

In Deploying Functional Grammar (Martin et al. 2010: 124), this is erroneously analysed as a behavioural clause.  The most obvious reason why this clause is not behavioural is that the Range of a behavioural clause is a Behaviour, and antibiotics is not a Behaviour.

Other verbs also erroneously analysed as serving as behavioural processes include: characterise, outline, describe, portray (ibid.).

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