Glossary term E

Emphatic Alternative Relation

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

(English)

  • The use of alternatively as a connective instead of or indicates an emphatic alternative relation.
  1. Halliday and Hasan 1976, 247
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