Sunday 20 December 2015

The Two Transforming Transitivity Interpretations

Halliday & Matthiessen (1999: 455):
Both transforming interpretations can be seen as attempts to find a canonical logical form, either Subject – Copula – Predicate or Subject – Predicate, rather than have to operate with different forms. These two logical structurings correspond to relational and material models respectively:
material

relational
Subject
Predicate

Subject
Copula
Predicate
Actor
Process

Carrier
Process
Attribute