Thursday 5 December 2013

Hypotactic Elaborating Clause Nexus With 'As'

It is a large construction
as can be seen from its 15 cloisters, 13 oratories, 86 staircases, 88 fountains, more than 1,600 paintings, 9 towers and 73 sculptures
a
= b

Cf

It is a large construction, which can be seen from its 15 cloisters, 13 oratories, 86 staircases, 88 fountains, more than 1,600 paintings, 9 towers and 73 sculptures

Tuesday 3 December 2013

Identifying Clause Of Possession: Benefaction


The hop-on hop-off ticket 
allows 
you
the freedom to leave and re-join the bus as often as you like
Token
Process: possession
Beneficiary
Value

See Halliday & Matthiessen (2004: 246).

Monday 2 December 2013

Assigner Realised As Angle: viewpoint


This magical city
is
a must see
for many tourists [[visiting Galicia]]
and
a welcome site
for the many pilgrims [[ending their Camino de Santiago]]
Token
Process
Value
Angle: viewpoint

Value
Angle: viewpoint


cf

Many tourists [[visiting Galicia]]
think
this magical city
a must see
and
the many pilgrims [[ending their Camino de Santiago]]
think
it
a welcome site
Assigner
Process
Token
Value

Assigner
Process
Token
Value



The clauses are identifying rather than attributive because, inter alia, they are reversible:

for many tourists [[visiting Galicia]] a must see is this magical city
for the many pilgrims [[ending their Camino de Santiago]] a welcome site is this magical city

(Note that here each Token attracts the tonic, which means it also functions as Identifier, which means the clauses are encoding not decoding.)

Wednesday 27 November 2013

Mental Clause With Metaphor Unpacked


you
'll get
a bird's-eye view [of this majestic city]
Senser
Process: mental
Phenomenon

cf

you
'll see
 this majestic city
from a bird's-eye view
Senser
Process: mental
Phenomenon
Angle: viewpoint


Angle: viewpoint is agnate with the Senser of a mental clause (Halliday & Matthiessen (2004: 276):

you
'll see
 this majestic city
as
a  bird
sees
it
Senser
Process: mental
Phenomenon

Senser
Process: mental
Phenomenon



a
bird’s eye
view
of this majestic city

Deictic
Classifier
Thing
Qualifier
metaphorical
Senser
Process
Phenomenon
congruent


Halliday & Matthiessen (2004: 294):
[In the like [‘emanating’] type of mental process] the Phenomenon bears no kind of resemblance to a Goal.  But it does show certain affinities with the Scope.  It figures as Subject, in the ‘receptive’, under similarly restricted conditions; and it appears in expressions, such as enjoy the pleasure, saw the sight, have an understanding of, which are analogous to material Scope expressions of the ‘process’ type, such as play a game, have a game.  So we can interpret the rôle of the Phenomenon in the like type of mental process as a counterpart of that of Scope in the material; it is the element which delimits the boundaries of the sensing.