Friday, 26 April 2019

Verbal Group Systems By Metafunction


Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 411):
The systems of the verbal group derive from different metafunctions:
(i) Textual: voice, contrast and ellipsis; 
(ii) Interpersonal: polarity, finiteness and modality; 
(iii) Experiential: aspect and event type; 
(iv) Logical: secondary tense.