Blogger Comments:
[1] To be clear, Martin (1996) misunderstands Halliday (1985, 1994) and Matthiessen (1995) by misconstruing the (multivariate) experiential structure of a clause as a (univariate) logical structure in which the Process and Medium constitute the dominant element (nucleus), with the Agent and Location as dependent (satellites):
In SFL Theory, interdependency relations obtain between units in unit complexes, not between elements in a unit.
[2] To be clear, the model in Martin (1996) is not only inconsistent with the model in Martin (1992: 319), which preceded Matthiessen (1995):
but also with the model in Martin & Rose (2007: 95), which followed both Matthiessen (1995) and Martin (1996):
