Martin (2013: 49):
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Again, Martin's notion that functional elements of different metafunctions can occur in the same structural configuration misunderstands the notion of structure, which, as Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 451) make clear, is the relationships among functions:
Note that, although it is the functions that are labelled, the structure actually consists of the relationships among them.
Martin's structures propose a relationship between experiential elements, Process and Location, and textual Theme, and each of these with interpersonal Q and WH- elements, while omitting other textual and interpersonal elements, Subject and Predicator.
One way to repair Martin's analyses might be:
However, there is reason to doubt these two analyses, and the previous one, because the Theme always happens to conflate with the Subject, and this echoes Martin's misunderstanding of Theme in English. See, for example, Misconstruing Subject And Theme and Misconstruing Marked Topical Theme.
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