及物性过程模式重构

SFG Transitivity Reconstructed:Separating Experience Types from Construing Modes

本文拟对经典系统功能语法中体现概念元功能的小句及物性过程模式进行重构。这包括两层含义:由识解过程确立的及物性的性质以及由此决定的新的过程分类模式。具体而言,这一新的分类模式涉及两个维度:第一个维度是物质和心理两种基本经验类别;第二个维度涉及关系与作为两种识解方式;两个维度可以生成四个具有复合特征的新过程:物质-作为、物质-关系、心理-作为和心理-关系;经典理论中的言语和行为被归入物质-作为类,所谓的存在过程则分布于四个新的过程类别中。

The paper reconstructs the classical Transitivity model of the clause in Systemic Functional Grammar, with particu-lar reference to separating construing modes from experience types. This new classification involves, on the one hand, the ma-terial and mental types of experience, and on the other the relational and non-relational or actional modes of construal, thus anew matrix of four new process types with compound features ： material-actional, material-relational, mental-actional and men-tal-relational. The former Verbal and Behavioural phenomena are allocated to the material-actional in the congruent sense, andthe Existential is reclassified to all of the four new types of processes.