Showing posts with label Verbal Group Complex. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Verbal Group Complex. Show all posts

Friday, 15 July 2022

'Dare' As Finite vs Event


The unmarked Mood tag of the first clause is dare they?
The unmarked Mood tag of the second clause is would they?

See Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 574): 'risk doing', 'venture to do'.

Thursday, 23 September 2021

'Forget' As Material Process

In the following clause, 'forget' serves the same function as the verbal group complex 'forget to bring', and so serves as a material Process:


Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 568):
It is the secondary group, or last secondary group if there is more than one, that realises the process type of the clause…

Thursday, 6 May 2021

(The) Glaxo Exhibit: Theme, Transitivity & Mood


hypotactic extending verbal group complex of conation:


Here not is interpreted as a formal or written variant of the Finite negative element n't, rather than a distinct modal Adjunct, on the basis that the unmarked Mood tag would be should she? rather than shouldn't she?. See Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 175-6).

The lexical choice of see adds a 'mental' feature to the material Process.

The additional participant rôle of Behaver is explained by Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 576, 577):
The extending complex is a two-part process, in which the Subject fills a dual participant role: Behaver (in the conative component) plus Actor, or some other role, in the happening itself.

Saturday, 10 April 2021

'Autorise' & 'Permettre'

Cette démarche autorise l'agence à les rayer de ses listes.
This approach authorises the agency to delete them from its lists.

Pour permettre à ces demandeurs d'emploi seniors de subsister jusqu'à leur retraite, plusieurs types d'allocation sont prévus.
To enable these senior job seekers to survive until their retirement, several types of allowance are provided.

In English, these are the primary verbal groups of hypotactic enhancing causative (modulation) verbal group complexes. See Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 580, 582-4).


In hypotactic verbal group complexes, it is the (last) secondary verbal group that realises the PROCESS TYPEHalliday & Matthiessen (2014: 568):
It is the secondary group, or last secondary group if there is more than one, that realises the process type of the clause, e.g. [material:] she seemed to mend it, [behavioural:] she seemed to laugh, [mental:] she seemed to like him, [verbal:] she seemed to tell us, [relational:] she seemed to be nice.
So, in these instances, both authorises to delete and enable to survive are material Processes. Although survive means 'continue to exist', unlike existential Processes, but like material Processes, it takes a Range participant, Scope, as in they survived the ordeal, and its unmarked present tense is the present in present, not the simple present.

Thursday, 18 July 2019

Non-Targeting Verbal Clause With Agent

He
limited ('caused')
himself
to say
only
the necessary
Prompter*
Process:
Sayer
verbal

Verbiage

α
 
β



* The term 'Prompter' is one suggestion for the Agent of such verbal clauses.