Thursday 30 November 2017

Construing Change: Transience And Permanence

Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 223):
The contrast [between participants and processes] is also reflected in in the organisation of nominal groups and verbal groups in two ways: while nominal groups have evolved the system of determination for locating referents in a referential space, verbal groups have evolved the system of tense for locating a unique occurrence of a process in time.