Behavioural Processes And Projection

Matthiessen (1995: 251-2):

Behavioural processes can tentatively be divided into intro-active and inter-active ones. Intro-active processes cover active equivalents of inert sensing (realised by mental clauses) — perception, cognition, and affect — and a few others. Some of these may quote. Interactive behaviour may involve extension - within the Behaver (x and y danced) or as a separate circumstance of Accompaniment (x danced with y )'., See Table 4-19.

As noted earlier, in IFG Section 5.5.1 (pp. 138-40), behavioural processes are separate from material ones; in the current grammar, they are treated as a subtype of material processes. In some earlier treatments, such as Halliday (1976: Ch. 11), those behavioural processes concerned with mental processing as an activity (smiling, laughing, listening, looking, watching, pondering, etc.) were treated as a type of mental process. The different treatments reflect the fact that behavioural processes, in some respects, fall between material processes and mental ones. For instance, like mental processes their Medium is normally conscious; but unlike mental processes (as a class) they cannot project or have a metaphenomenal Range (Phenomenon). (They can, however, have a macrophenomenal Range: Little Bobby's parents watched him recite Ode to a Grecian Urn with tears in their eyes.)

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To be clear, for Halliday, behavioural processes cannot project, and when such verbs serve in a quoting nexus, they add a behavioural feature to verbal Process. Halliday (1994: 139):