Thursday, 25 May 2023

'Dance' And 'Sing' As Material Processes

Matthiessen (1995: 238):
The different types of Range are shown in Table 4-16 — with the exception of behavioural Ranges. This classification will be used later as a basis for listing verbs serving in material clauses. 


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To be clear, for Halliday, the clauses he did/began a dance and he sang an Elizabethan folk song are behavioural, and so a dance and an Elizabethan folk song are the Ranges of behavioural Processes. Halliday (1994: 139):

Halliday (1994: 162):

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