Saturday 28 July 2018

Existential Clauses: Verbs

Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 309, 310):
‘Existential’ clauses typically have the verb be; in this respect also they resemble ‘relational’ clauses. But the other verbs that commonly occur are mainly different from either the ‘attributive’ or the ‘identifying’: see Table 5-26. …