Tuesday 24 May 2022

Martin's Interpretation Of Nuclear Transitivity

Halliday & Matthiessen (1999: 504):
However, even if we adopt this approach, this still does not impose a single determinate form on the description. As we have already noted, Martin, in his systemic treatment of processes in Tagalog (1996a), offers a different interpretation of nuclear transitivity: he defines it in terms of orientation, rather than configuration, and hence operates with a significantly different concept of participant function.


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To be clear, this is a tactful identification of the nature of Martin's misunderstanding of SFL transitivity.