Showing posts with label Imperative. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Imperative. Show all posts

Friday, 11 December 2020

Tagged Imperative Or Metaphorical Interrogative?


The first analysis treats this instance as a tagged imperative clause, whereas the second treats it as an interpersonal metaphor of mood: a command realised as polar interrogative clause. Cf


This raises the question as to whether the tagging of the imperative facilitated the genesis of the metaphorical variant.

Sunday, 7 June 2020

Imperative Relational Clauses

Be
honest
Theme: unmarked
Rheme
Process: attributive
Attribute
Predicator
Complement
Residue

Be
the most honest
Theme: unmarked
Rheme
Process: identifying
Value
Predicator
Complement
Residue

Saturday, 21 July 2018

Adjunct Of Phrasal Verb As Marked Theme Of Imperative Clause


up
you
get
Process:
Actor
material
Adjunct
Subject
Finite
Predicator
Theme: marked
Rheme

Monday, 15 May 2017

Subject As Marked Theme


don't
you
dare
Theme: marked
Rheme
Finite
Subject
Predicator
Mood
Residue