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Figure 3 shows the differences between the verbal process percentages in each of the student genres.
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In line with the proposal to remove the behavioural category from the Transitivity system, one way to address the fact that a Target may emerge in a clause comprising a verbal process is to allow for the verbal process set to cater for a distinction between verbs with and those without the potential to project (see Bartley 2017 for more details on a proposal of verbal process subtypes).
The verbal process with most projections in both the student and the expert corpus is decir.
The verbal process favours only circumstance of matter (with only instance found).
The saying processes are construed by the verbal processes of calling and talking.
Finding such an even split in individuals' selections between the Material and Verbal processes here is fully in line with O'Donnell et al.'s (2009) conclusion that there tends to be two types of analysts: those who would prioritise semantic criteria (who, in this case would select Material) and those who would rely on syntactic information (in this case picking Verbal).
It is worth mentioning that not all linguists consider the latter as verbal (Martin et al. 1997) taking projection as the criterion for distinguishing between verbal processes (that project) and other communication processes (that do not project) and in this case are excluded from this group and defined as behavioural.
Like the example of CAC signaled by cognitive mental process above, then, these verbal process CACs use the link between thought and action to imply causal relationships between events.
This variable function may therefore be a reasonable explanation as to why these items would be difficult to separate between Material and Verbal processes.
Verbal process is the least frequent process type at around 0.89 % (the clause grammar of saying).
The generic process model has been designed, implemented and used to simulate different types of interaction between verbal and non-verbal communication processes: a non-verbal communication process can add and modify content to a verbal communication process, but can also provide a protocol for the (control of the) verbal communication process.
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