Thursday 12 October 2017

Qualitative Process Or Conflation Of Process And Attribute


These things
matter
Carrier
Process: attributive
Attribute


Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 271):
Within ‘quality’ attribution, there is a further option: a small number of qualities may be construed as a qualitative Process rather than as a qualitative Attribute. Thus, alongside will it be enough? we have will it suffice? (Alternatively, we can interpret such clauses as having a conflation of Process and Attribute.)

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