Misrepresenting A Behavioural Process As Material [1]

Martin, Matthiessen & Painter (2010: 111):

The transitive categories can be ‘translated’ into ergative ones as in Table 4.13, which shows that in addition to the Agent and Medium roles, the ergative model includes the Beneficiary and Range.

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To be clear, after repeatedly misrepresenting material clauses as behavioural, here the authors misrepresent a behavioural clause, they did a dance, as material; see, for example, Halliday (1994: 139).

 

Elsewhere, like Halliday, Matthiessen (1995: 228, 251, 252, 348) lists dance with behavioural processes.

It can be added that Table 4.13 restricts the Behaver role to the Medium of a Process, despite the fact that the authors interpret a verbal clause with a Target as behavioural, in which case the "Behaver" is the Agent of the Process.