Wednesday, 21 February 2024

Misrepresenting The Scope Of Recursion In The System Of Transitivity

Martin (2013: 71):


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To be clear, this system network is ill-conceived because, if the feature 'agentive' is selected, for the one clause, it allows potentially unlimited insertions of Medium and Process, and potentially unlimited selections of both 'middle' and 'effective'.

A system network that properly restricts the recursion in effective clauses is provided in Matthiessen (1995: 232):

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