Saturday 13 April 2013

Level Of Projection, Projected Mood & Projecting Environment

Halliday & Matthiessen (2004: 470):
Thus verbal processes, and mental: cognitive processes, project in the indicative mode (propositions), while verbal processes, and mental: desiderative processes, project in the imperative mode (proposals). The projecting environment may be a verbal or mental process clause, or a (metaphorical) nominal group with a verbal or mental process noun (locution or idea) as its Head.