Friday 27 September 2013

Two Different Lexicogrammatical Realisations Of Offers


Let’s
go out
to lunch
(it will be/is)
my treat
Subject
Predicator
Adjunct

ellipsis: Subject + Finite
Complement
Mood
Residue


Residue


Reasoning:

Speech Function And Mood:
Viewed 'from above', in terms of speech function, each of these clauses realises an offer
(offering to go eat and offering to pay).
Offers have no congruent grammatical realisation.
Here, the first offer is realised as a clause of imperative mood;
while the second is realised as a clause of indicative: declarative mood.

Cohesion:
The second clause is cohesively tied to the first clause by the ellipsis of its Mood element.

Logico-Semantic Relation & Taxis:
Viewed 'from below', the graphology suggests a structural relation, such that the two clauses form a nexus, related tactically and logico-semantically.  Since both clauses are independent clauses, they are related paratactically.  Since the second clause adds to the first, the logico-semantic relation is expansion: extension.

Thursday 19 September 2013

Clause Complex With Non-Finite Hypotactic Elaboration


Every night, at exactly 21:53, the Chief Yeoman Warder of the Tower emerges from the Byward Tower 
wearing his long red coat and Tudor bonnet 
and carrying a candle lantern and the Queen's Keys
a
= b

1
+ 2


Reasoning:

Consider the finite agnates of the dependent clauses in the following, where they are presented as enclosed within the primary clause:
Every night, at exactly 21:53, the Chief Yeoman Warder of the Tower << who wears his long red coat and Tudor bonnet and carries a candle lantern and the Queen's Keys >> emerges from the Byward Tower.
The finite agnates of the dependent clauses are clearly non-defining relative clauses, which are instances of hypotactic elaboration not enhancement.

Wednesday 4 September 2013

Why The Unmarked Positive Imperative Clause Is Finite



Check
the Mood Tag
will
you
Predicator
Complement
Finite
Subject
Residue
Mood Tag

See Halliday & Matthiessen (2004: 138-40).