Sunday 2 August 2015

Misconstruing A Mood Adjunct (Temporality) As A Continuity Item [3]

Martin (1992: 230-1):
[4:164] CONJUNCTION Ben left early.
                                 Yet he felt a little tired. 
            CONTINUITY    Ben has left;
                                 But Flo hasn't yet arrived.

Blogger Comment:

The function of yet here is interpersonal: a mood Adjunct of temporality, and so it does not mark a continuity relation with the previous message.


but
Flo
hasn‘t
yet
arrived

Subject
Finite
mood Adjunct: temporality
Predicator

Mood
Residue