Table 3 Participants in systemic functional linguistics
Process type | Nuclear participant | example | Non-nuclear participant |
|---|---|---|---|
material | Actor, Goal | She cooked the rice. | Initiator, Recipient. Client, Scope, Attribute |
mental | Senser, Phenomenon | She saw the house. | Inducer |
relational: attributive | Carrier; Attribute | She was strong. | Attributor, Beneficiary |
relational: identifying | Token, Value | She is the leader. | Assigner |
behavioral | Behaver (target) | She smiled. | Behaviour, Scope |
verbal | Sayer (target) | She said. | Receiver, Verbiage |
existential | Existent | There is a nice pub. | Â |