Tuesday, 20 December 2016

Interpersonal Metaphor And Discontinuous Subject

he
 is
less likely [ than Ivy ]
[[ to have spoken ]]
Sub-
Finite
Complement
-ject
Mo-
Residue
-od

cf he having spoken is less likely than Ivy (having done so).


Cf the Cardiff Grammar analysis (Fawcett 2007: 934):

he
 is
less likely than Ivy
to
have
spoken
Subject
Operator/Auxiliary
Auxiliary Extension
Infinitive
Auxiliary
Main Verb

That is, Fawcett analyses 'spoken' as the Main Verb of this attributive clause, and 'is' and 'have' as two of its Auxiliaries.

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