Blogger Comments:
As previously explained, Halliday's first statement on multivariate and univariate structures, Halliday (1965), is written at the time of Scale & Category Grammar, not Systemic Functional Grammar, and, most importantly, is not consistent with Halliday's later theorising. For example, in this paper, and in no work since, Halliday stipulates (pp229, 232) that, in multivariate structures, different variables each occur once only. Similarly, in this paper, and in no work since, Halliday (p230) categorises Head°Modifier structures as multivariate, instead of univariate:
In short, Doran has misrepresented Halliday's very first 'Scale & Category Grammar' statement on multivariate structure as consistent with Halliday's later understanding of it in SFL Theory.