Tuesday, 20 November 2018

Beneficiary In Attributive Relational Clauses

Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 345):
There are also a few ‘relational’ clauses of the ‘attributive’ mode containing a Beneficiary, for example him in she made him a good wife, it cost him a pretty penny. We shall just refer to this as a Beneficiary, without introducing a more specific term, since these hardly constitute a recognisably distinct rôle in the clause.

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Note also identifying clauses of benefaction, such as this affords us many possibilities (p297).