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MMVERB (MATERIAL, MENTAL,VERBAL, EXISTENTIAL,
RELATIONAL, BEHAVIORAL
PROCESSES)
GROUP 2 :
Ifana Winda
Nanda Yuniarti
Nuraisha
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Existential processes Material processes
Mental processes Relational processes
Behavioural processes Verbal processes
Types of processes
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Material ProcessesMaterial Processes(processes of doing)
They express the notion that some
participant(called actor)doessomething(may be to some other entity,called goal).
Verbs of action like run, kick, climb,
spring, etc are used.
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Material Processes
PARTICIPANT PROCESS PARTICIPANT
ACTOR MATERIALPROCESS
GOAL(OPTIONAL)
EXAMPLE THE BOY KICKED THE POST
EXAMPLE THE MAYOR R ESIGNED NO GOAL
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Mental processesMental processes
((processes of perception, affection,cognition(thinking, knowing)
These are expressed by verbs of feeling,
perceiving and thinking such as like, hate,love, know, think and understand.
Here, participants have different names
of Senser (the conscious being animate orinanimate that is feeling, thinking orseeing) and Phenomenon(that which issensed or felt)
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Mental Processes
PARTICIPANT PROCESS PARTICIPANT
SENSER MENTALPROCESSES
PHENOMENON
EXAMPLE MARY LIKED THE GIFT
EXAMPLE I CANRECOGNIZED
THE KING
EXAMPLE JIM KNOW S (impliedphenomenon)
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Verbal processesVerbal processes(processes of saying)
This is a large category that not only includes not
only the different modes of saying(asking,commanding, offering, stating) but also semioticprocesses that are not necessarily
verbal(showing, indicating),as inHis face tells
stories untold. The central participant is the SAYER. TheVERBIAGE is what is said and TARGET orRECEIVER is the person it is said to
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Verbal process
Sayer Verbalprocesses
Receiver verbiage
EXAMPLE He told me Astory
EXAMPLE Willie said It
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Existential processesExistential processes These represent that something exists or
happens, as in There was a cat. or There wasa solitary girl..In these cases what we are
doing is affirming the existence ofsomething, or someone. As with behavioral verbs there is only one
participant here. In these clauses thereacts as a grammatical
subject but it doesnt fulfill any functionoutside of its grammatical role. The onlysignificant element is the thing ,or person,
being affirmed as existing. This is termed the
existent.
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Existential processesExistential processes
CIRCUMSTANCE GRAMMATICALSUBJECT
EXISTENTIALPROCESS
EXISTENTENTITY
EXAMPLE On the wall There Hangs Apicture
EXAMPLE There Was An old woman
EXAMPLE There Seems to be Aproblem
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Relational processesRelational processes(being and having)(being and having)
Relational process involves states of being, includinghaving. Relational process is typically realized by the
verb be or some verb of the same class (known asCopular verbs): for example, appear, become, seemor sometimes by verb such as have, own, process.Relational process can be classified according to
whether is being used to identify something or toassign quality to something.
Process which assign a quality is called AttributiveProcess.While process which establish an identityis called Identifying Process.
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Identifying Process An identifying clause is not about ascribing or
classifying but defining. The meaning of an
identifying intensive it that X serve to definethe identity of Y. In this process the participantroles are token and value.
You are The tallest one here
token Identifying process value
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Identifying Process
Grammatically, the defining involves twoparticipants:
a. Tokenwhich stands for what is beingdefined
b. Valuewhich defines All identifying clauses are reversible, they can
form passives
The tallest one here is you
value identifying token
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Behavioral processesBehavioral processes
physiological and psychological,material and mental behavior They are expressed by verbs such as cough, yawn
smile, breathe, faint, sleep,look, watch, stare, listen,
think, worry, dream, sing, dance, lie(down).situp/down. Chatter, grumble, talk, cry ,laugh, smile,frown, sing, snarl, whine.
As distinct from other groups, only one participant is
required, the person doing the laughing, smiling andcoughing or yawning. This participant is termed theBEHAVOR, a conscious being like the SENSOR but the
process is more like one of doing
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PARTICIPANT PROCESS
BEHAVIOR BEHAVIORAL PROCESS
EXAMPLE THEY LAUGHED
EXAMPLE HE FROWNED