Tuesday, 24 March 2020

Causative Time-Phase: Durative & Inceptive

 Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 581):
Here the same verbs keep, start/stop, also function causatively:
(1) durative:   the ball kept rolling
(caus.)            John kept the ball rolling 
(2) inceptive:  the ball started/stopped rolling
(caus.)             John started/stopped the ball rolling