Saturday 15 August 2015

Misconstruing A Circumstantial Adjunct As A Continuity Item

Martin (1992: 233-4):
Again is used to mark the recurrence of a Process · Medium nucleus at a later date:
[4:180] Ben beat Carl in Rome
            and Carl lost again in Seoul. 

Blogger Comment:

In SFL theory, again may function as a conjunctive Adjunct or as a circumstantial Adjunct (Halliday & Matthiessen 2004: 133).  Here it functions experientially, identifying a temporal Location ('at a later time').

Ben
beat
Carl
in Rome
Agent
Process
Medium
Location: place
Nucleus

and
Carl
lost
again
in Seoul

Medium
Process
Location: time
Location: place
Nucleus

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