Wednesday 24 January 2018

Mental Clauses [Characterisation]

Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 245):
While ‘material’ clauses are concerned with our experience of the material world, ‘mental’ clauses are concerned with our experience of the world of our own consciousness. They are clauses of sensing: a ‘mental’ clause construes a quantum of change in the flow of events taking place in our own consciousness.