Monday 23 April 2018

Distinguishing Mental And Attributive Clauses: Clause Structure

Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 275):
In clause structure, a ‘mental’ clause typically has (and always can have) both Senser and Phenomenon; whereas in the ‘attributive’, such other entities can only appear circumstantially as Cause or Matter (agnate to Phenomenon) or Angle (agnate to Senser).