Sunday 21 May 2023

Effective Verbal Clauses

Matthiessen (1995: 230):
(Following IFG (p. 155), the grammar presented here specifies only middle verbal clauses. If one posited a combination of verbal and effective, it might include causative mental examples such as x convinced y 'x caused y to believe'.)


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To be clear, this is true only of the first edition of IFG (Halliday 1985). Subsequent editions interpret targeted verbal clauses as effective. For example, Halliday (1994: 166):

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