What is an emphatic alternative relation?

An emphatic alternative relation is an alternative relation in which the existence of different possibilities is stressed.

• What is an alternative relation?

Halliday and Hasan 1976 247

Context for this page:

• Concept module: emphatic alternative relation
• In overview module: Glossary (Linguistics): E
• In modular book: Glossary of linguistic terms, by Eugene E. Loos (general editor), Susan Anderson (editor), Dwight H., Day, Jr. (editor), Paul C. Jordan (editor), and J. Douglas Wingate (editor)
• In bookshelf: Linguistics

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