The notion of peripherality is extended to nominal and verbal groups in Table 5.14.
Table 5.14. An alternative model of nuclearity
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centre
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nucleus
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margin
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periphery
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Process = Range:process
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+ Medium
+ Range:entity
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+ x Agent
+ x Beneficiary
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x Circumstance
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Classifier = Thing
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+ Epithet
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(+ x Numerative?)
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x Qualifier
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Event = Particle
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+ Event
(event complex)
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(+ x causative?)
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x Manner adverb
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Blogger Comments:
[1] In this alternative model of nuclearity, the 'nucleus' is construed as non-nuclear — as peripheral to the 'centre'. In combination with this, the terminology does not reflect a cline of values — 'centre' and 'nucleus' are synonyms, as are 'margin' and 'periphery'.
[2] As the table makes clear, this alternative model of nuclearity confuses experiential nuclearity with logical expansion type — construing elaboration at the centre, extension further out at the nucleus, and enhancement at the periphery. See previous posts (since 10/10/15) for details on the misapplications of expansion types as represented in this table.
[3] In SFL theory, units on the rank scale — clauses, group/phrases, words, morphemes — form (logical) complexes, whereas elements of function structure, such as the Event of a verbal group, do not.
[4] This construes a 'Manner adverb' as an element of verbal group function structure. See critique in previous post here.
