As with parataxis, adverbial groups and prepositional phrases can be linked hypotactically: the tactic relationship is based on identity in function rather than difference in internal structure. Hypotaxis is used to construe spatial and temporal paths and to construe gradual narrowing of the specification of a location.
Friday 17 May 2013
Hypotactic Adverbial Group Or Prepositional Phrase Complex
Halliday & Matthiessen (2004: 495):
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Adverbial,
Complex,
Group,
Hypotaxis,
Ideational,
Lexicogrammar,
Phrase
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