GrammarSoft ApS

Experiencer

Experiencer is selected for subjects of mental verbs. Mental verbs are marked as such in the lexicon, which marks all verbs according to Halliday (1994)'s process types. Some of the verbs marked as mental in the lexicon are ignored, such as "gå" "have" and "trykke", as these are verbs with very general meanings, that only have their mental meaning in specific contexts. These contexts have to be treated as idiosyncratic. Likewise experiencer is selected as the case for subjects with predicative mental adjectives, such as "glad", "lykkelig", "tilfreds", "utilfreds", "ked" og "sur" (engl.: 'happy', 'contented', 'sad', 'angry').

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# SELECT %EXP

SELECT (%EXP) (0 @SUBJ>) (*1 @MV BARRIER CLB/SB LINK 0 V-MENT ); 
                                       #Han tænkte
SELECT (%EXP) (0 @<SUBJ) (*-1 @MV BARRIER CLB/SB LINK 0 V-MENT ); 
                                       # -"- inversion
SELECT (%EXP) (0 @<SUBJ) (*1 @MV BARRIER CLB/SB LINK 0 V-MENT LINK 
       0 @ICL-AUX<);                   # -"- inv. + sammensat tid 
SELECT (%EXP) (0 @SUBJ>) (*1 CLB BARRIER VFIN LINK *1 VFIN LINK 
       0 @FS-N< LINK *1 VFIN BARRIER @SUBJ LINK -1 ALL LINK *1 @MV 
       BARRIER CLB/SB LINK 0 V-MENT ); #Manden, som ..., tænkte


SELECT (%EXP) (0 @SUBJ>) (*1  @MV BARRIER CLB/SB LINK 0 <vk> LINK 
       *1 A-MENT BARRIER CLB/SB);      # Han var glad
SELECT (%EXP) (0 @<SUBJ) (*-1 @MV BARRIER CLB/SB LINK 0 <vk> LINK 
       *1 A-MENT BARRIER CLB/SB);      # -"- inversion
SELECT (%EXP) (0 @<SUBJ) (*1 @MV BARRIER CLB/SB LINK 0 <vk> LINK 
       0  @ICL-AUX< LINK *1 A-MENT BARRIER CLB/SB); 
                                       # -"- inv. + sammensat tid
SELECT (%EXP) (0 @SUBJ>) (*1 CLB BARRIER VFIN LINK *1 VFIN LINK 0 
       @FS-N< LINK *1 VFIN BARRIER @SUBJ LINK -1 ALL LINK *1 @MV 
       BARRIER CLB/SB LINK 0 <vk> LINK *1 A-MENT BARRIER CLB/SB); 
                                       # Manden, som ..., var glad

Before I turn to functions of objects, I would like to turn the reader's attention to the fact that there are no rules selecting or removing the typical subject function of agent, neither in this or in the 'clean up'-subalgorithm. This is the function left when all others have been removed. I do not even need to select it in 'clean up', as we will see.