Thursday 7 May 2020

Extending Conjunction: The Three Types Of Addition Exemplified

Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 616-7):
(i) positive:
||| The ozone amount was also the lowest on record at all latitudes south of 60°S latitude in 1987. |||
Furthermore, the occurrence of strong depletion was a year-long phenomenon south of 60°S || and was not confined to the spring season as in preceding years, || although the greatest depletion occurred during the Southern Hemisphere spring. |||
(ii) negative:
||| When Kukul awoke, || he saw [[ that the feature was gone]]. ||| He searched everywhere, || but he could not find it. ||| Nor could he remember the words of the priest on the day [[ he was born]] . ||
(iii) adversative:
||| After the Bay of Pigs fiasco, he said ruefully, || “It would have been better || if we had left it to James Bond.”
||| On the other hand, his reputed attempts [[ to get Castro to extinguish himself with either an exploding cigar or a poison pen]] may have owed all too much to Bond. |||