Martin (1992: 230):
[4:162] CONJUNCTION Ben is here.Still I wonder if Flo is coming.
CONTINUITY Ben has left.But Flo is still here.
Blogger Comments:
[1] The function of still is ambiguous here. It is conjunctive only if its meaning is similar to 'yet':
Ben is here. Yet I wonder if Flo is coming.
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However, if the clause is a textual agnate of:
Ben is here. I still wonder if Flo is coming.
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then still is functioning as a mood Adjunct of temporality (see Halliday & Matthiessen 2004: 128), and does not mark a relation of conjunction with the previous message.
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[2] The function of still here is interpersonal: a mood Adjunct of temporality, and so it does not mark a logical (for Martin) relation of continuity.
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