Tuesday, 23 May 2023

Range In Relational Clauses

Matthiessen (1995: 230):
For instance, relational clauses in principle always have a Range — the relation is construed between Medium & Range;


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To be clear, this overstates the case, since it applies only to attributive and decoding identifying clauses. An encoding identifying clause construes a relation between Medium (Value/Identified) and Agent (Token/Identifier). There is no Range.

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