Showing posts with label JRR Tolkien. Show all posts
Showing posts with label JRR Tolkien. Show all posts

Wednesday, 23 December 2020

Locational 'There' Or Existential 'There'?


Cf On the wide flats beside the noisy river there were marshalled …

If in many companies is how they were marshalled, then Manner;
If in many companies is where they were marshalled, then Location.

Tuesday, 19 July 2016

Existential Process Implicitly Replacing Material Process


Actor
Process: material
Location

Existent

Process: existential
time
doesn’t
seem to pass
here

it
just
is
Subject
Finite
Predicator
Adjunct

Subject
Adjunct: counterexpectancy: limiting
Finite
Mood
Residue

Mood

Monday, 18 July 2016

Behavioural Imperative Vs Verbal Imperative

Process: behavioural


Process: material
speak
friend
and
enter
Predicator
Vocative

Predicator


Process: verbal
Verbiage

Process: material
say
friend
and
enter
Predicator
Complement

Predicator