Meaning-Centered Grammar - An Introductory Text - Craig Hancock
Transitivity: clause as representation
Meaning-Centered Grammar - An Introductory Text - Craig Hancock
Craig Hancock [+]
SUNY - Albany
Craig Hancock has taught English at the college level for almost three decades. He is the senior writing faculty for the nationally honored Educational Opportunity Program at the University at Albany, where he has sought to discover approaches to grammar compatible with process (meaning based) approaches to teaching writing. This text was developed and refined over five years in an introductory course in English grammar.
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6.1 Introduction 6.2 Basic clause types 6.3 Copular clauses 6.4 Section exercise 6.5 Intransitive and transitive clauses 6.6 Types of transitive clauses 6.7 Section exercise 6.8 Ergative and non-ergative patterns 6.9 Process approaches to transitivity (Material process; Behavioral process; Mental process; Verbal process; Relational process; Existential process) 6.10 Section exercise Chapter practice