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The above context expresses a warning <strong>and</strong> negative feelings about the dependent relation<br />

between the automatic systems: the performance of ERP systems has the possibility to affect<br />

the SCM system negatively. Thus, the dependent relation is negatively evaluated in business<br />

studies, but the independent relation is seen as rather more welcome. We will return to this<br />

argument in the next section (9.1.4), where we consider the DISTANCE group.<br />

In contrast to BC, most examples of this phraseology in ALC seem to make<br />

observations of a more neutral kind. Although 10 examples of the collocation with not <strong>and</strong><br />

less are found in the total 82 examples (12%), they simply express research observations with<br />

no positive/negative evaluation.<br />

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While the collocates not <strong>and</strong> less obviously express negative polarity, most of the examples<br />

above are not evaluatively negative because they simply describe what a writer observes in<br />

the study.<br />

9.1.4. Distance<br />

The fourth form of connection in the present data is distance. Adjectives in this group express<br />

the ways in which people, things, or groups are (not) separated or different from one another<br />

in some respects, <strong>and</strong> in particular indicates whether or not there is a certain<br />

disparity/similarity between two things. Some adjectives in this group also indicate that<br />

something is no longer affected by another thing (e.g. free from N), because one is in the<br />

location far from the place under influence of another. Thus, this group is especially expressed<br />

by adjectives in the pattern A DJ from N. (N.B. the preposition from particularly expresses<br />

either the distance between things or the source of something; this semantic group prioritizes<br />

the former meaning). Table 9.11 below summarizes adjectives in this group.<br />

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