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