Thursday 20 December 2012

Attributive Clauses With Verbal Assignment

It
was designated
an Historic-Artistic site
in 1971
Carrier
Process: attributive
Attribute
Location


Its historic centre
has been designated
a World Heritage Site
by UNESCO
Carrier
Process: attributive
Attribute
Attributor

Tuesday 18 December 2012

Sunday 9 December 2012

Fact In (Targeted) Verbal And Mental Clauses


They
criticised
(the fact) that she had come
Sayer
Process: verbal
Target


I
regretted
(the fact) that she had come
Senser
Process: mental
Phenomenon

Saturday 8 December 2012

Verbal Projection



The blood on the carpet
tells
us
that
there
has been
an accident
α
“ β
Sayer
Process: verbal
Receiver


Process: existential
Existent