I would argue that just as tone units allow for multiple information units in a spoken grammatical clause, so do punctuation marks allow for multiple units of information in the written grammatical clause.
In production of language, children across the world proceed from prelinguistic babbling to one-word utterances and on to early word combinations, grammatical clause structure, and clause combining.
Although there is an unmarked relationship between the intonation contour and the grammatical clause, it is not a defining one (Halliday, 1967a).
In the Gottschalk-Gleser analysis procedure [ 52, 53], the grammatical clause is the unit of analysis.
Units of comments consisting of one grammatical clause but covering different topics were considered to be different units of comments.
For the "rolling down" event, neither participant was able to express both manner and path information in a single grammatical clause, with the participant in Kemmerer et al. (2007) using an incomplete sentence lacking a verb ("He … down, whoa!") and the participant in Dipper et al. (2011) using two clauses ("…and he rolls and keeps going falling, falling, falling").
His sentences were flawlessly grammatical, all sub-clauses correctly inserted, no sentence unfinished or verbless, no wavering of tenses, no subjunctive misused.
The contextual analysis of Text 4 is given together with the semantic analysis of the rhetorical complexing of the text and the grammatical analysis of clause complexing in Figure 15.
The participants' use of grammatical metaphors in it-clauses with extraposed subjects is in line with Hewings and Hewings' (2002) findings of similar structures in business studies research articles and students' essays.
First, systemic typology needs to take into account the phenomenon of grammaticalisation and the systematic analysis of grammatical units below the clause (but see Matthiessen et al. 2016) on a typology of verbal units).
