Thursday 30 April 2015

Simple Circumstances: Location & Cause

Halliday & Matthiessen (1999: 217):
There are some adverbial expressions realising other types of circumstances, e.g. everywhere (Location: space), recently (Location: time); as well as others that might be interpreted differently because of the nature of the quality itself, e.g. pointlessly ‘in a pointless manner’ or ‘for no good reason’ (Cause).