The 'Evaluative' Subtype Of Focus Reconsidered

  Martin, Matthiessen & Painter (2010: 170):

The Focus element can have a range of functions, which are outlined in Table 5.7 below.

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To be clear, the 'evaluative' subtype of Focus is the attitudinal counterpart of the Epithets in the 'selecting' subtype of Focus. On the basis of the same reasoning that Halliday used to derive 'Pre-Numerative' and 'Pre-Deictic', these can again be interpreted as 'Pre-Epithets'. Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 394):

When the Head is conflated with the Epithet or the Classifier, the relationship between the Head and the Thing is an elaborating one (which is why this type of construction has been called appositive): ‘Head is Thing’.

 

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