Title: An Exploration of the Semantic Organization of English Material Clauses
Abstract:In SFG,material clauses are clauses of doing and happening.The semantic organization of material clauses is governed by the transitive/ergative system.The middle or the effective voice of material cla...In SFG,material clauses are clauses of doing and happening.The semantic organization of material clauses is governed by the transitive/ergative system.The middle or the effective voice of material clauses makes the subdivision of transitive/ergative structure possible.Finally the various semantic organizations of English material clauses can be summarized in two schemata: the Medium-Process schema and the Agent-Process-Affected schema.However,the pseudo-effective clause cannot be generalized into any one of the two schemata;they are metaphorical extensions from one central structure type to another.Read More
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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