Thursday 22 November 2018

A 'Circumstance-Like' Medium

Rakugo stories
could
only
be performed
successfully
by a Japanese story teller
Verbiage
Process:

verbal
Manner: quality
Sayer
Subject
Finite
mood Adjunct
Predicator
circumstantial Adjunct
circumstantial* Adjunct
Mood
Residue


* Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 157) label all Adjuncts that are experiential in function 'circumstantial Adjuncts'.

Friday 16 November 2018

Particularising Clarifying Elaborating Conjunctive Adjunct


in particular
when
they
are
committed
as part of a plan or policy or as part of a large-scale commission of such crimes
conjunctive Adjunct

Subject
Finite
Predicator
 circumstantial Adjunct


How do we know that in particular doesn't modify when?
Because, like a conjunctive Adjunct, it can occur at different points in the clause:
  • when, in particular, committed as part of a plan or policy or as part of a large-scale commission of such crimes
  • when committed, in particular, as part of a plan or policy or as part of a large-scale commission of such crimes
  • when committed as part of a plan or policy or as part of a large-scale commission of such crimes, in particular