... realization of this relation in the short story “The Law of Life” written by the noted American writer Jack London. In other words, this chapter will offer an analysis of the story in terms of expansion ... meaning of one clause is enhanced in terms of time, place, manner, cause and condition. In other words, the enhancing clause provides circumstantial features of time, place, cause, reason, condition, ... causal-conditional. 3. All of these may be combined with both types of interdependency, either parataxis or hypotaxis. In other words, these types of expansion are considered in terms of taxis....