Sunday 25 March 2018

Attributive Vs Identifying Mode: Reversibility

Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 265):
The ‘identifying’ ones are reversible … The ‘attributive’ ones are not reversible …


Blogger Comment:

Note that, in the case of ASSIGNMENT, there is a distinction in VOICE in attributive mode:

the tourists
thought
the crocodiles
approachable
Attributor
Process: attributive
Carrier
Attribute

the crocodiles
were thought
approachable
by the tourists
Carrier
Process: attributive
Attribute
Attributor