Monday 10 February 2020

Hypotactically Elaborating Phrase vs Hypotactically Extending Clause


Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 565):
Note that with a little of me thrown in in the following example
Those two guys, << with a little of me thrown in, >> came together as Lewis Moon.
is a clause, not a phrase; there are two elements of transitivity (a little of me + thrown in):