Tuesday 27 May 2014

System Approached ‘From Above’: Transitivity

Halliday & Matthiessen (1999: 28):
transitivity — clause: traditionally a word category, transitive = verb taking object / intransitive = verb not taking object; reinterpreted as (i) process types (material/mental/verbal/relational) and (ii) an ergative system (middle/effective) in the clause.