Matthiessen (1995: 300):
Existential clauses are treated as a subtype of relational clauses here. They are invariably middle. They are the limiting case, since there is only one participant, the Existent, and thus the process is no true relation — no true expansion linking two participants.
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To be clear, this is inconsistent with Halliday & Matthiessen (1999: 157), where effective existential clauses with two participants are proposed:
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