The Univariate Structure Of A Modalised Passive Verbal Group

 Matthiessen (1995: 730):

Examples: 

positive & finite: temporal: future & unmarked focus & secondary: past: secondary: future: secondary: past & passive

Blogger Comments:

To be clear, this misconstrues and misrepresents the univariate structure of the verbal group. Because there are only five features selected — modal, past, future, past, passive — there are only five elements of univariate structure, not six:

should have been going to have been tested

α modal      β past        γ future        δ past     ε passive