英语关系过程分类中的两个存疑

本文从韩礼德对英语关系过程的分析入手,探讨了英语关系过程分类中的两个存疑。英语关系过程分类应当参照关系过程小句中参与者之间的两种关系:逻辑关系和语义关系。根据两个参与者之间的逻辑关系,关系过程可以分为归属式和识别式两种模式;而根据语义关系,关系过程可以分为内包型、环境型和所有型三种类型。另外,内包型关系过程中两个参与者之间存在一种表示“属性或特征”的语义关系,它有别于环境型关系过程和所有型关系过程中出现的表示“环境”或“所有”的语义关系,不能相互混淆。两种模式和三种类型的英语关系过程可以相互作用,因而形成六小类关系过程。 

Two Problems in the Classification of English Relational Processes

Starting from Halliday’s analysis, this paper attempts to clear out two problems arising in the classification of English relational processes. It is argued that the classification of English relational processes has to be conducted in terms of the two types of relationships between the participants in a relational clause, i.e. logical and semantic relationships. According to the logical relationship between the participants, relational processes can be divided into two modes: “attributive” and “identifying”, while according to the semantic relationship, they can be divided into three types: “intensive”, “circumstantial” and “possessive”. Furthermore, this paper claims that a semantic relationship of “feature or property” exists between the participants in an intensive relational process, which is very different from that of “circumstance” or “possession” in a circumstantial or possessive relational process, respectively. The two modes of relational processes interact with the three types, thus forming six subtypes of relational processes in English.