Monday, 9 May 2016

Beneficiaries In Behavioural 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.)

I
will sing
a song
for you
Behaver
Process: behavioural
Behaviour
Beneficiary 


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