Thursday 20 September 2018

Condition: Realisation

Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 323):
… the Head/Thing of a nominal group introduced by the preposition tends to be
  • a noun denoting an entity whose existence is conditional …
  • a noun denoting an event that might eventuate … or
  • a nominalisation denoting a reified process or quality …
  • Eventive nouns include those naming meteorological processes …