Sunday, 14 July 2013

Enhancing Conjunction: Spatial

Halliday & Matthiessen (2004: 544):
Place reference may be used conjunctively within a text, with here and there, spatial adverbs such as behind and nearby, and expressions containing a place noun or adverb plus reference item, for example in the same place, anywhere else. Here spatial relations are being used as text-creating devices.