Sunday, 20 March 2016

'Smoke' Serving As Material (Not Behavioural) Process


A little fat man of Bombay
was smoking
his pipe
one very hot day
Agent
Actor
Process:
material
Medium
Goal
Location


Blogger Comment:

In Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 649), this type of clause is erroneously analysed as behavioural, even though pipe is not a (physiological or psychological) Behaviour, and Medium not Range:
… the words pipe and smoke are typically related as Range to Process in a behavioural process clause.

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