Table 3 Semantic and logicosemantic types of circumstance (after Halliday and Matthiessen 2004: 262–263)
From: Circumstantiation: taking a broader look at circumstantial meanings
Logicosemantic type | Semantic type | Semantic subtype | Probe question |
|---|---|---|---|
Enhancing | Extent | distance | how far? |
duration | how long? | ||
frequency | how often? | ||
Location | place | where? | |
time | when? | ||
Manner | means | how? | |
quality | how? | ||
comparison | how? what like? | ||
degree | how much? | ||
Cause | reason | why? | |
purpose | what for? | ||
behalf | who for? | ||
Contingency | condition | why? | |
default | Â | ||
concession | Â | ||
Extending | Accompaniment | comitative | who or what with? |
additive | who or what else? | ||
Elaborating | Role | guise | what as? |
product | what into? | ||
Projecting | Matter | Â | what about? |
Angle | Â | according to whom? |