An Experiential Function Realising An Interpersonal Option

Martin (2013: 47-8):

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[1] To be clear, it is necessary to distinguish an interpersonal Predicator from an experiential Process, because a Predicator is enactment of the self as meaning, whereas a Process is a construal of experience as meaning. As a function, a Predicator is related to other elements of mood structure, such as Subject, Complement and Adjunct, whereas a Process is related to other elements of transitivity structure, such as Medium, Agent and Range. Moreover, there is no "morphology of the Process", since Process is a function at clause rank, not a class of form, verb, at word rank.

[2] To be clear, this network incongruously proposes that an interpersonal feature, major, is realised by the insertion of an experiential function, Process, and does not account for the function Subject.