Monday 27 April 2020

The System Of Conjunction

Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 611, 612):
… the logico-semantic relations that are manifested in the system of conjunction fall into the same three types of expansion we met in our exploration of clause complexing – that is, conjunctions mark relations where one span of text elaborates, extends or enhances another, earlier span of text. The system is set out in Figure 9-2.