PROCESSES OF SAYING, BEHAVING AND EXISTING
SUMMARY
1 Processes of saying and communicating are verbal processes. The participant who communicates is the Sayer, and is typically human, while what is communicated is the ‘Said’ and may be a reported statement, a reported question or a reported directive (order, request, etc.). A Recipient, the addressee, is required with tell, and a Target may also be present in some verbal processes.
2 Behavioral processes are half-way between material and mental processes, in that they have features of each. They include involuntary processes (cough) and volitional processes (watch, stare, listen).
3 Existential processes, rather than stating that things simply exist, tend to specify the quantification and/or the location of something: There are bits of paper everywhere. The single participant is the Existent, which may be an entity or an event.
