Sunday, 26 June 2016

An Inclination To Possess Realised Metaphorically As An Inability To Exist


I
cannot live (‘exist’)
without them
Existent
Process: existential
Contingency: default
Accompaniment *

metaphorical for:

I
need (‘must have’)
them
Carrier: possessor
Process: possession
Attribute: possessed


* Viewed from above, the meaning is Contingency: default ('in the absence of').  As Halliday & Matthiessen (2004: 273) point out:
A circumstance of Accompaniment may have an additional sense of cause or contingency…

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