Friday, 29 November 2019

The Four General Types Of External Consequence

Martin & Rose (2007: 127):
There are four general types of external consequence: cause, means, condition, purpose. Some basic options are shown in Table 4.3.

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To be clear, this characterisation of the authors' discourse semantic system of external consequence is a rebranding of Halliday's grammatical system of clause complexing that confuses a subtype of manner (means) with 3 subtypes of causal-conditional relations (cause, purpose and condition).  Cf Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 477):

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