From: Grammatical metaphor: What do we mean? What exactly are we researching?
Congruent: | Metaphorical | |||
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➝ Circumstance | ➝ Process | ➝ Quality | ➝ Thing | |
Quality ➝ unstable | 1 instability | |||
Process ➝ absorb | 3 absorptive | 2 absorption | ||
Circumstance ➝ instead of; on the surface | 6 replaces | 5 alternative; superficial | 4 replacement; surface | |
Relator for/because ➝ [b, for/because a] so [a, so b] | 10 because of; as a result | 9 causes, proves; ensues, follows from | 8 casual; consequent | 7 cause, proof; result |
∅ | 12 occurs; imposes; does, has | 11 phenomenon, fact | ||
Thing, circumstance ➝ drive [be safe] decided [today] | 13 expansion of Thing < in Environment of 1 or 2 > driver [safety] driver’s [safety] [safety of the driver] today’s [decision] [decision] of today |