Matthiessen (1995: 299):
Relational clauses are either EXISTENTIAL or EXPANDING. Existential clauses constitute the limiting case of being — a mode of being with only one participant, the Existent. In contrast, expanding clauses always involve a relation between two participants — they are true relational clauses in this respect. (A restricted exceptional subtype will be noted below where one of the two participants is fused with the Process.) They are called expanding relational clauses because the relation covers the same semantic space as expansion elsewhere in the grammar, e.g., in the clause complex and in conjunction.
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[1] To be clear, Halliday ± Matthiessen (1985, 1994, 2004, 2014) distinguish existential clauses from relational clauses.
[2] 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 expansion.
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