the physicist
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walked
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from Tumbi Umbi to Kangy Angy
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Actor
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Process
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Location: motion
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the physicist
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walked
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from dawn to dusk
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Actor
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Process
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Location: motion*
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See Halliday & Matthiessen 2014: 565-6). However, viewed 'from above', there is ambiguity:
Location: where did he walk? vs Extent: how far did he walk?Location: when did he walk? vs Extent: how long did he walk?
* The temporal construal as Location: motion — rather than as Extent: duration — is the linguistic source of the notion in physics of "travelling" through time, in the same sense as travelling through space.
Related:
doing and being as 'complementary perspectives on a quantum of change' (Halliday & Matthiessen 1999: 132):
Related:
doing and being as 'complementary perspectives on a quantum of change' (Halliday & Matthiessen 1999: 132):
doing from A to B (cf Location: motion; cf locomotion)
being from A to B (cf Extent)
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