Thursday 16 May 2013

Hypotactic Nominal Group Complex: Extension

Halliday & Matthiessen (2004: 494):
In exactly the same way as with elaboration, a nominal group may be extended hypotactically by a prepositional phrase, the preposition having the same sense as when used to introduce a non-finite extending clause — (1) addition (positive) … (2) variation, replacement … (3) variation, subtraction … .