Matthiessen (1995: 305):
The system RELATION TYPE is simultaneous with RELATIONAL ABSTRACTION. There are three terms — intensive/possessive/circumstantial. These three types are manifestations in the environment of relational processes of the highly generalised types of expansion that permeate the lexicogrammatical system: elaborating — intensive, extending — possessive, and enhancing — circumstantial.
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To be clear, the exception here is a circumstantial relational clause of matter — such as This story concerns a lost dog — where the relation is one of projection, not enhancement.
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