Sunday, 18 December 2016

A Receptive Verbal Projection Of A Command


a
“ b
she
 was told
to be
there
Receiver
Process: verbal
Process: relational
Attribute: circumstantial

cf someone commanded her "Be there!"


cf the 'Cardiff Grammar' analysis:

Fawcett (2007: 922) treats this projecting clause nexus as a single clause involving a 'phrasal modal'.

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