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This research intends to examine English clause combining and the potential of transfer therein. Clause combining generally involves two clauses. Traditional grammar (e.g., Quirk et al. 1985) distinguishes two basic patterns of clause combining, i.e., coordination and subordination. Subordination is readily identifiable by two basic properties, i.e., dependency and embedding. Halliday (1985, 1994) and Halliday and Matthiessen (2004, 2014) categorize embedded clauses into embedded defining clauses and embedded fact clauses. An embedded defining clause is the restrictive relative clause that is embedded in a nominal group to function as its post-modifier. An embedded fact clause is the clause that is embedded in a fact noun to function as its appositive, including subject appositive and object appositive.
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He, Q. (2019). Introduction. In: A Corpus-Based Approach to Clause Combining in English from the Systemic Functional Perspective. The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7391-6_1
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