Martin (1992: 231):
[4:168] CONJUNCTION Either Ben didn't want to competeor he couldn't.
CONTINUITY Ben couldn't pass the testand Lindley couldn't either.
Blogger Comment:
[1] In SFL theory, this is not conjunction, a non-structural resource of the textual metafunction, but a structural relation (extension: alternation) of the logical metafunction.
[2] The function of either here is interpersonal: a mood Adjunct of intensity (counterexpectancy: exceeding) — cf even Lindley could(n't) — and so it does not mark a continuity relation with the previous message. (The structural logico-semantic relation between the clauses is extension: addition: additive.)
This is agnate with Ben couldn't pass the test and neither could Lindley, where 'negative' is a feature of the Adjunct instead of the Finite:
[1] In SFL theory, this is not conjunction, a non-structural resource of the textual metafunction, but a structural relation (extension: alternation) of the logical metafunction.
[2] The function of either here is interpersonal: a mood Adjunct of intensity (counterexpectancy: exceeding) — cf even Lindley could(n't) — and so it does not mark a continuity relation with the previous message. (The structural logico-semantic relation between the clauses is extension: addition: additive.)
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This is agnate with Ben couldn't pass the test and neither could Lindley, where 'negative' is a feature of the Adjunct instead of the Finite:
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mood Adjunct: intensity: counterexpectancy: exceeding
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