Monday, 13 September 2021
Korean Nominal Group With 2 Epithets
Thursday, 9 September 2021
"The Reaction Object Construction (ROC)"
Saturday, 4 September 2021
Solar Electron Neutrinos
Saturday, 28 August 2021
Tuesday, 24 August 2021
Sunday, 22 August 2021
Decoding Revolution
Saturday, 21 August 2021
Friday, 20 August 2021
Friday, 13 August 2021
A Nominal Group With Two Epithets
Tuesday, 10 August 2021
Tuesday, 3 August 2021
Mental Clause With Depictive Attribute?
Monday, 2 August 2021
Sunday, 1 August 2021
Identifying Clause With Depictive Attribute?
Labels:
Depictive Attribute,
Identifying,
Inside No 9,
Material,
Transitivity
Saturday, 31 July 2021
Friday, 30 July 2021
Verbal Clause With Depictive Attribute
Thursday, 22 July 2021
Subject As Unmarked Theme And Unmarked New
Wednesday, 21 July 2021
Existent As Marked Theme
Labels:
Existential,
Mervyn Peake,
Mood,
Theme,
Transitivity
Monday, 19 July 2021
Same Wording, Different Transitivity

Thursday, 8 July 2021
Wednesday, 7 July 2021
Material Clause With 2 Range Participants
Labels:
Depictive Attribute,
Material,
Scope,
Transitivity
Tuesday, 22 June 2021
Tuesday, 15 June 2021
Phonological Rule As Attributive Clause
Tuesday, 8 June 2021
Do Insects Have "Minds"?
Monday, 7 June 2021
Attributes Of Higher-Order Consciousness
Sunday, 6 June 2021
Friday, 4 June 2021
Verbal vs Mental Texts
Monday, 24 May 2021
Negative Polarity: Finite vs Adjunct; Mood vs Residue
Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 145):
you may not leave before the end (‘are not allowed to’): not is part of Finiteyou may not stay right to the end (‘are allowed not to’): not is part of Residue
Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 177):

Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 176n):
The principle is rather complex, but it works as follows: if the agnate finite clause is negative (as shown by the tag; e.g. she was never given a proper chance, was she?) then the negative Adjunct functions as Mood element. If the agnate finite clause is positive (e.g. she could not have known about it, couldn’t she?) then the negative Adjunct forms part of the Residue.
Monday, 17 May 2021
Uncovering Congruent Agency By Undoing Ellipsis And Unpacking Metaphor
A.
(1) Reinstating the elided Agent:
(2) Unpacking the metaphorical Agent:
B.
Here, despite the fact that adults are killing children in a refugee camp, no agency whatsoever is construed.
Halliday (2003 [1993]: 215):
… it is precisely in the "reporting" of pronouncements and speeches on the one hand, and of massacres, terrorist acts and nuclear disasters on the other, that linguistic analysis most clearly reveals the opposing ideologies that are being promoted in different organs. Construing events as news is a highly political act.
Labels:
Clause Complex,
Ellipsis,
Extension,
Grammatical Metaphor,
Hypotaxis,
Parataxis,
Projection,
Transitivity
Tuesday, 27 April 2021
Thursday, 15 April 2021
'Exist' As Material Process?

Tuesday, 13 April 2021
'Sing Out' As Attributive Process?
Labels:
Attributive,
Lexical Metaphor,
Mervyn Peake,
Mood,
Theme,
Transitivity
Sunday, 11 April 2021
Complement As Theme, Subject As Rheme
Wednesday, 31 March 2021
Music As Inducer Of Mental Processes
Sunday, 21 March 2021
Decoding Music By Reference To Mental Processes
Friday, 12 March 2021
Sunday, 7 March 2021
Dissociation Of Subject And Theme
Tuesday, 2 March 2021
'Came' As Identifying Process
The lexical choice of came stylistically adds the features of 'motion' and 'direction' to the relational Process.
Labels:
Grammatical Metaphor,
Identifying,
Mervyn Peake,
Mood,
Theme,
Transitivity
Sunday, 31 January 2021
Wednesday, 20 January 2021
Dissociation Of Subject And Theme
Labels:
JRR Tolkien,
Material,
Mood,
Theme,
Transitivity
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