How The Cardiff Grammar Handles Hypotactic And Paratactic Projection

Fawcett (2010: 271):

The twin concepts of 'parataxis' and 'hypotaxis' play such a large part in IFG (pp. 215-73) that it may be helpful to state how they are handled here.

Firstly, then, Halliday's two types of 'hypotactic projecting' clause ('locution' and 'idea') are handled as embedded clauses that fill a Phenomenon that is conflated with a Complement, thus:

John [S] said/thought [M] he was running away [clause filling C/Ph].

And his equivalent two types of 'paratactic projecting' clause are handled similarly — except that the embedded clause fills a sentence, which functions as an element in a simplified model of a 'move' in discourse (shown as "text"), and this in turn fills the Phenomenon/Complement (see Appendix B), thus:

He [S] said/thought [M] "I'll run away" [clause filling Σ in "text" filling C/Ph]

Blogger Comments:

[1] To be clear, in SFL Theory, tactic relations obtain between units at all ranks, not just clause rank.

[2] Trivially, locutions and ideas are projected clauses, not projecting clauses; the verbal and mental clauses are the projecting clauses.

[3] Trivially, in SFL Theory, a Phenomenon is not the Range participant of a verbal clause. The Range of a verbal Process is termed Verbiage.

[4] Non-trivially, by treating all projected clauses as embedded, Fawcett's Cardiff Grammar provides less explanatory power than SFL Theory, since it fails to distinguish between projections that are actually brought into semiotic existence by the verbal or mental Process of a clause: locution or idea, and those that are not: pre-projected facts serving as Verbiage or Phenomenon.

[5] To be clear, here Fawcett proposes that his clause He said/thought "I'll run away" 

• has the component Complement/Phenomenon,
• which is filled by the unit "text",
• whose components are Opening Quotation mark ^ Sentence ^ Closing Quotation mark, and
• whose Sentence is filled by an embedded clause.

And at this point, the embedded clause itself has not yet been analysed.

Cf SFL Theory:

[6] To be clear, Appendix B (p304) provides only the following assistance on this matter: