Misrepresenting Single Forms As Function Structures

Martin (2013: 28, 31):

… we have been dealing with pronoun systems realisation by single unit structures (by single words) above …

In the next chapter we'll move on to consider system networks realised by structures consisting of more than one element …

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This is misleading because it is not true. Martin has not even been dealing with functional elements of structure, let alone structures. He has only been dealing with forms, pronouns, and devising networks by giving priority to form over function in doing so — the opposite approach to that taken in SFL Theory. To be clear, a structure is the relationships among functions. Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 451):

Note that, although it is the functions that are labelled, the structure actually consists of the relationships among them.