Showing posts with label Imperative. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Imperative. Show all posts
Saturday, 19 November 2022
Sunday, 30 October 2022
Material Clause Without Medium
Monday, 26 September 2022
Subject As Marked Theme Of Imperative Clause

Labels:
Imperative,
Material,
Mood,
Scope,
Theme,
Transitivity
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.
Labels:
Behavioural,
Cause,
Grammatical Metaphor,
Imperative,
Interrogative,
Mood,
Mood Tag,
Theme,
Transitivity
Sunday, 7 June 2020
Imperative Relational Clauses
Be
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honest
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Theme: unmarked
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Rheme
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Process: attributive
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Attribute
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Predicator
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Complement
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Residue
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Be
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the most honest
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Theme: unmarked
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Rheme
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Process: identifying
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Value
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Predicator
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Complement
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Residue
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Labels:
Attributive,
Identifying,
Imperative,
Mood,
Theme,
Transitivity
Saturday, 21 July 2018
Adjunct Of Phrasal Verb As Marked Theme Of Imperative Clause
up
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you
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get
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Process:
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Actor
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material
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Adjunct
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Subject
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Finite
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Predicator
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Theme: marked
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Rheme
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Labels:
Imperative,
Material,
Mood,
Phrasal Verb,
Theme,
Transitivity
Monday, 15 May 2017
Subject As Marked Theme
don't
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you
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dare
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Theme: marked
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Rheme
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Finite
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Subject
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Predicator
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Mood
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Residue
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