Martin, Matthiessen & Painter (2010: 168-9):
Similarly, Numeratives are concerned with the numerative properties of particular referents (their order in a series or the size of the set of referents) rather than with general experiential classes.
Blogger Comments:
To be clear, here again the authors mistake the Thing of a nominal group for the referent signalled by a reference item. Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 374) explain the function of the Numerative as follows:
The Numerative element indicates some numerical feature of the particular subset of the Thing: either quantity or order, either exact or inexact.
No comments:
Post a Comment