Martin (2013: 18-9):
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This is misleading. To be clear, in Systemic Functional Linguistics, system networks are used to model function not form. This network models forms (pronouns) in terms of the formal categories (1st, 2nd, 3rd). Cf. Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: ):
As discussed in Chapter 1, grammatical categories are organized in systems. For example, there is a system of PERSON, based (in English, as in most other languages) on the opposition of ‘you-&-me’ versus ‘everyone (and perhaps everything) else’, and then on that of ‘you’ as opposed to ‘me’ (see Figure 2-2):
To be clear, PERSON is an interpersonal subsystem of the nominal group for distinguishing interactants, and these from others. Matthiessen (1995: 11):
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