Oct 26
announcements, education and academia 5 Comments
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Oct 23
language development, parody humour, language learning No Comments
learning english can be fun!
Oct 12
One year [[after they got married]] they found their car keys.
Marked Theme: circumstance of temporal Location realised by a nominal group with an embedded clause as Qualifier.
Note: The reason one year after is not a conjunction group, with one year as a Premodifier of after is as follows:
(1) conjunctions form a word class within the primary word class of adverbials [Halliday & Matthiessen 2004: 358];
(2) Premodifiers in adverbial groups are grammatical items — there is no lexical premodification in the adverbial group [op cit: 356];
(3) items serving as Premodifiers in adverbial groups are adverbs of polarity, comparison or intensification [ibid];
(4) all the examples given of Premodifiers in conjunction groups are grammatical items (even, just, not, only), not lexical items [op cit: 358].
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The utter ludicrousness of regarding preceding lexical words as Premodifiers within a conjunction group can be seen in the following, with the would-be conjunction group highlighted in bold:
One excruciatingly painful and somewhat hazardous, and not to say chaotic year after they got married… etc
Oct 04
general observations, semantics 1 Comment
emotion is to desire
as
perception is to cognition
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perception is to emotion
as
cognition is to desire
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