Tuesday, 26 November 2019

The System Of External Time

Martin & Rose (2007: 127):
So options for external time include successive: sometime or immediate and simultaneous, set out in Figure 4.3. 

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To be clear, the authors' logical discourse semantic system of external time is a simplified confusion of the temporal systems of Halliday's grammatical systems of clause complexing (logical metafunction) and cohesive conjunction (textual metafunction).

Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 477) provide the following temporal distinctions for clause complexing:

Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 613) provide the following temporal distinctions for cohesive conjunction:

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