funcional label
If we use functional labels (i.e. labels that indicate the role played by each element of
the representation), we can express what we have said about the ‘content’ of clauses in
terms of processes involving participants in certain circumstances.
Circumstances are typically realized by adverbial groups or prepositional phrases:
they are circumstantial Adjuncts in interpersonal terms. Note that conjunctive and
modal Adjuncts
In deciding what types of process to recognize, we resort to a combination of
common sense and grammar: common sense to distinguish the diff erent kinds of
‘goings-on’ that we can identify, and grammar to confirm that these intuitive differences
are reflected in the language and thus to justify the decision to set up a separate category