Sunday 31 July 2016

Assigned Attributive Clause With Neither Attributor Nor Attribute

this tea
has been sweetened
Carrier
Process: qualitative

or

this tea
has been sweetened ('made sweet')
Carrier
Process
Attribute

Friday 29 July 2016

When Moving A Circumstance Creates A Clause Complex

he
is listening
to music
in his bedroom
Behaver
Process: behavioural
Location: orientation
Location: rest


he
is
in his bedroom
listening
to music
a
+ b
Carrier
Process: relational
circumstantial Attribute
Process: behavioural
Location: orientation

Tuesday 26 July 2016

'Just' Serving As Mood Adjunct: Intensity Vs Temporality

Sayer

Process: verbal
Verbiage
he
just (‘merely’)
said
what he said before
Subject
Adjunct: intensity: counterexpectancy: limiting
Finite
Predicator
Complement
Mood
Residue

Sayer

Process: verbal
Verbiage
he
just (‘this minute’)
said
what he said before
Subject
Adjunct: temporality: relative to now: near
Finite
Predicator
Complement
Mood
Residue

Friday 22 July 2016

Encoding Circumstantial Meaning: Angle: viewpoint


his angle [on the matter]
is
[[that asylum seekers should be treated as fellow human beings]]
Identified/Value
Process: relational
Identifier/Token

See Halliday & Matthiessen (2004: 242; 2014: 292).