Sunday 29 November 2015

The Frame Of Reference For Participant & Circumstance Rôles

Halliday & Matthiessen (1999: 443):
Our own approach is also language–based: participant rôles and circumstance rôles in the figures are based on intra-semantic considerations (e.g. the transphenomenal types of projection and expansion) and on inter-stratal considerations from below, from lexicogrammar.