I
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cannot live (‘exist’)
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without them
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Existent
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Process: existential
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Contingency: default
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Accompaniment
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metaphorical for:
I
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need (‘must have’)
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them
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Carrier: possessor
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Process: possession
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Attribute: possessed
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* 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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