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Tuesday 19 March 2024
Saturday 24 February 2024
Thursday 22 February 2024
The Days Of Auld Lang Syne
Both units of the Qualifier realise the meaning 'in the past', with the second elaborating the first, and the relation is paratactic, because neither depends on the other:
The days of auld (old)
The days lang syne (long since/long ago)
However, on the model of Halliday (1994: 193):
the logical structure is:
Monday 5 February 2024
From A Vast Cloud Of Gas And Dust
Monday 16 October 2023
Tilting Towards Grammatical Metaphor
Friday 25 August 2023
The Butter Betty Bought
Thursday 27 July 2023
Wednesday 5 July 2023
Breathing Light
First he breathed light upon the face of the matter or chaos; then he breathed light into the face of man;It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and see the ships tossed upon the sea;
Wednesday 10 May 2023
Decoding vs Encoding Equations And Their Reversals
Friday 31 March 2023
Dimension Of Measurement As Qualifier
Saturday 18 March 2023
Protection From Other People With Guns
Monday 6 February 2023
Predicated Theme vs Postposed Subject
Saturday 14 January 2023
Giving A False Impression
Wednesday 26 October 2022
Probability Realised By Both Finite Modal Operator And Noun Of Modalisation
- the probability of complications or adverse effects (➘ noun of modalisation);
- the probability of increasing that probability (➘ Finite).
Friday 15 July 2022
'Dare' As Finite vs Event
See Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 574): 'risk doing', 'venture to do'.
Saturday 28 May 2022
The Materiality Of Birth
Sunday 6 March 2022
Making A Good Wife
Thursday 3 March 2022
Identifying A Happy Baby With A Happy Mother
In the first clause, the lexical choice of thrive adds a quality 'well' or 'vigorously' to the Process, and the circumstance on Glaxo answers the Manner: means interrogative 'what with?' (Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 318).
The second (reversible) clause identifies a happy baby with a happy mother; it does not construe a happy baby as member of the class a happy mother.*
The third clause assigns the membership of you to the class a happy mother.
* Cf. an attributive agnate which construes a mother as a member of the class happy:
Saturday 27 November 2021
Theme Identification vs Theme Predication
See Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 94, 124, 198).
Sunday 21 November 2021
Thematic Equative In Complex With Nested Dependent Clause
This identity encodes the Value what we can notice by reference to the Token a clear evolutionary tendency towards centralisation.
Saturday 20 November 2021
Thematic Equatives
Thursday 23 September 2021
'Forget' As Material Process
It is the secondary group, or last secondary group if there is more than one, that realises the process type of the clause…
Thursday 26 August 2021
Interpersonal Metaphor Of Mood
Monday 23 August 2021
Wednesday 18 August 2021
Monday 16 August 2021
Decoding The Pandemic
Sunday 15 August 2021
Monday 9 August 2021
Rectifying The Situation
Sunday 8 August 2021
Saturday 7 August 2021
The Phrasal Pursuit Of Long, Wavy Hair
Friday 6 August 2021
A More Distressing Attribute
Thursday 5 August 2021
With An Extending Attributive Clause Complex Looking Like A Circumstance
With the additive, the Process of a relational dependent clause may be implicit; the marker is the conjunctive preposition with (positive) or without (negative):||| I told the whole story of the six-minute Louvre at The Kennedy Center || with President Carter there …|||||| Without chlorine in the antarctic stratosphere, || there would be no ozone hole. |||
Wednesday 4 August 2021
She Was An Attribute, He Was A Value
Tuesday 3 August 2021
Tuesday 6 July 2021
A Serpent Verbally Projecting A Proposal
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