Friday, 6 August 2021

A More Distressing Attribute



The motivation for the discontinuous Attribute is textual: to highlight the demonstrative reference item (that), in the comparison made by the Qualifier, as the unmarked New.

Thursday, 5 August 2021

With An Extending Attributive Clause Complex Looking Like A Circumstance



Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 476):
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. |||