David Rose wrote to asflanet on 11 Feb 2024, at 15:08:
In IFG there’s an analysis of adv gp as recursive hypotaxis...
This misses the interplay of comparison, intensification and negation in this adv gp. e.g. intensification ‘very much’; comparison ‘not so very much’. Here as layers of subjacency...
not
so
very
much
more
easily
b comp
a
b intens
a
b comp
a
b neg
a
b intens
a
Here again with formal function labels. Each function is realised by a subjacency duplex, i.e. by the a b relation.
not
so
very
much
more
easily
Comparison
b
a
Degree
b
a
Comparison
b
a
Negation
Degree
b
a
b
a
Blogger Comments:
[1] To be clear, here Rose simply rebrands logical structure as 'subjacency duplex'. More importantly, none of these satisfy its defining criterion of not being modifiable more than once.
[2] To be clear, as Halliday's analysis makes clear, there is only one level of modification in this adverbial group; that is, there is no internal bracketing. Moving from right to left in the structure simply involves increasing subcategorisation (Halliday & Matthiessen 2014: 389). So
How easily? more easily [comparison]
How more easily? much more easily [intensification]
How much more easily? very much more easily [intensification]
How very much more easily? so very much more easily [comparison]
How so very much more easily? not so very much more easily [negation]
