The Univariate Structure Of A Passive Verbal Group

Matthiessen (1995: 739):

Another more complex example is the one shown in Figure 7-38, mentioned earlier.

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

will have been going to have been tested

α future  β past      γ future        δ past     ε passive