Dear Scholars,
The following might be helpful to anyone who is unsure about distinguishing
a paratactic elaborating nominal group from a Qualifier.
Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 561):
It is important to distinguish between an elaborating group and an embedded
group occurring as Qualifier: e.g.
(taxis, elaborating) *his latest book, ‘The Jaws of Life’*,
(embedded) *his book ‘The Jaws of Life**’*.
The former is related to a non-defining relative; it means ‘his latest book
– which is “The Jaws of Life” ’, and is marked by tone concord:
//4 ^ his /latest /book the //4 jaws of /life was a //1 ghastly suc/cess //
The latter is related to a defining relative clause; it means ‘this
particular book of his (he has written others)’ and has no tonic prominence
on book.
dr chris cléirigh
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