Monday, 30 June 2014

Projection Distinction: Hypotaxis Vs Embedding

She
thought

that
he
was called
Peter
a

‘b
Senser
Process: mental


Value
Process: relational
Token


She
liked
(the fact) [[that he was called Peter]]
Senser
Process: mental
Phenomenon: metaphenomenon

In the first case, the hypotactic projection nexus, the mental process of cognition projects a report (he was called Peter) into semiotic existence.

In the second case, the clause simplex, the mental process of emotion ranges over a fact (he was called Peter) presented as already projected by other symbolic processing, mental or verbal.

This is one important semantic distinction made explicit by the grammatical distinction between hypotaxis and embedding.

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