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Wednesday, 16 August 2023

Circumstances Inherent In A Process

Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 243):
There are also, in fact, certain circumstances that are construed as inherent in a process. This happens with [transformative] ‘enhancing’ clauses construing movement through space of a participant: here a circumstance of Place represents the destination of that movement and may be inherent in the process. For example:
Did these books and articles put groceries on the table?
They carved its image into stone || and placed it on their temples and palaces.