Monday, 1 December 2025
Sunday, 23 November 2025
Assigning A Definition

'Naming and defining are linguistic exercises, in which the word is Token and its meaning is the Value.'
See Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 287-8, 269).
Wednesday, 9 July 2025
Kawaan Jurisprudence

Tuesday, 18 March 2025
Clause Complex Embedded As Qualifier Of Epithet

Cf I'm not very surprised…
Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 275):
Submodifiers like so, very, too go with nominal groups but not with verbal groups: we can say I was very afraid of it but not I very feared it; you’re not too keen on it but not you don’t too want it.
Labels:
Logico-Semantic Relations,
Mood,
Nesting,
Nominal Group,
Taxis,
Transitivity
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