Martin (1992: 313):
Having taken this step, a number of related grammatical structures present themselves for treatment along similar lines. At clause rank, there is a class of locative phrases which can be interpreted as subclassifying the Process whose ritual destination they provide. These are associated with verbs of motion (especially go and come); their destination is realised through an unmodified nominal head (e.g. come to tea). A number of these "locative Ranges" are listed below:
go/come = to/from work/school/class/uni/theatre/daycare;
to/from training/practice/football/hockey;
to/from dinner/tea/lunch/breakfast/supper;
to/from bed
Blogger Comments:
[1] In SFL theory, these 'locative phrases' are circumstances of Location: spatial: motion: towards/away from. See Halliday & Matthiessen (2004: 265-6).
[2] These 'locative phrases' cannot be interpreted as 'subclassifying the Process' because, for example, 'to tea' is not a type of 'come'. Instead, they construe the spatial location: motion of the unfolding of the process. Accordingly, the expansion relation is enhancement, not elaboration — and it obtains between the circumstance and the Nucleus.
[3] These are circumstances of Location, not "locative Ranges". The distinction is exemplified below:
Ben
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crossed
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the mire
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Medium
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Process
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Range
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Ben
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fell
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into the mire
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Medium
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Process
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Location
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