Wednesday 3 July 2019

Receptive Attributive Clause


effective: receptive

he
was
said to be
a complete bastard
by those who knew him
Carrier
Process: relational
Attribute
Attributor
Subject
Finite
Predicator
Complement
Adjunct
Mood
Residue

cf. middle

he
was
a complete bastard
according to those who knew him
Carrier
Process: relational
Attribute
Angle: viewpoint
Subject
Finite
Predicator
Complement
Adjunct
Mood
Residue


Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 349):
The way the voice system works is as follows.  A clause with no feature of ‘agency’ is neither active nor passive but middle. One with agency is non-middle, or effective, in agency. An effective clause is then either operative or receptive in voice. In an operative clause, the Subject is the Agent and the Process is realised by an active verbal group; in a receptive [clause] the Subject is Medium and the Process is realised by a passive verbal group.

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