Mutual Determination between Clausal Constituents  

Oleh:

He, Qingshun ; Fu, Meiling

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: World Journal of English Language vol. 5 no. 1 (2015), page 14-22.
Topik: mutual determination; syntactic analysis; systemic functional linguistics
Fulltext: 6327-20212-1-SM.pdf (565.43KB)

Isi artikel

In formal syntactic analysis, the noun phrase functioning as subject governs the verb phrase functioning as predicate, and the verb within the verb phrase in turn governs the noun phrase functioning as its object. Similarly, in Systemic Functional Linguistics, the central element of a clause is the verbal group; it determines the nominal group functioning as its participant. However, neither formal nor functional syntactic analysis can tell the difference between the two sentences Mary has become a good person and Mary has become a dead person. Following the basic ideas of stratum, metafunction, cline and rank in Systemic Functional Linguistics, this research analyzes the functional syntactic structures of the two sentences from the ideational and interpersonal perspectives, proposing that although it is the verbal group that determines the nominal group functioning as its object in a clause, the nominal group itself has a reflexive effect on the verbal group. That is, the constituents in a clause are mutually determined.

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