Saturday 1 August 2015

Misconstruing A Mood Adjunct (Temporality) As A Continuity Item [2]

Martin (1992: 230):
[4:163] CONJUNCTION The results are significant.
                                 Finally let me consider the question of applicability. 
            CONTINUITY    Ben trained for hours
                                 and by eleven he'd finally finished.

Blogger Comment:

The function of finally here is interpersonal: a mood Adjunct of temporality, and so it does not mark a logical relation with the previous clause in the clause complex.

and
by eleven
he
‘d
finally
finished

circumstantial Adjunct
Subject
Finite
mood Adjunct: temporality
Predicator

Resi-
Mood
-due