Martin (1992: 305):
As with hyponymy, the relationship between part and whole may be named. Thus a kind of chair is proportional with a part of the chair, but with the name of the relational [sic] filling a Pre-Numerative (Halliday 1985: 174) rather than a Pre-Classifier position. The relational items may function cohesively between clauses, as in The chair's broken. — Which part? The following items are among those realizing relational meronymy:
part, content, ingredient, fitting, member, constituent, stratum, rank, plane, element, factor, component, faction, excerpt, extract, selection, piece, segment, section, portion, measure
Blogger Comments:
[1] In SFL theory, this nominal group function is termed 'extended Numerative: portion', which is the cross-classification of 'partitive' and 'measure'. See Halliday & Matthiessen (2004: 333).
[2] The cohesion in the response is ellipsis of the potential lexical repetition of chair (and of the Finite and Residue).
a
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part
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of
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the
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chair
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Numerative: portion
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Deictic
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Thing
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[2] The cohesion in the response is ellipsis of the potential lexical repetition of chair (and of the Finite and Residue).
the chair
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’s
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broken
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Subject
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Finite
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Complement
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which part
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Subject
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The notion of a 'relational meronymy' therefore arises from not recognising a cohesive relation.
[3] Not all of these items necessarily represent parts of wholes.
