Wednesday 19 January 2022

The Taxonomic Limitations Of Minor Processes

Halliday & Matthiessen (1999: 266):
The minor processes that form circumstances (realised as prepositions in English) are even less taxonomisable; they are intermediate between processes and relators, and only the spatial ones (spatio-temporal) display any real paradigmatic organisation (to/from // towards/away from; inside/outside // into/out of; before/after // in front of/behind &c.).