Wednesday 10 January 2018

Material Clauses With Scopes

Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 240):
… the Scope is restricted to ‘intransitive’ clauses (with the minor exception of clauses with give). This means that a material clause consisting of ‘nominal group + verbal group + nominal group’ can be either [transitive] Actor + Process + Goal or [intransitive] Actor + Process + Scope.