Martin (2013: 56):
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To be clear, on the one hand, this misunderstands delicacy as "privileging". Delicacy is simply a hyponymic relation (Halliday & Matthiessen 1999: 145), and a hypernym (e.g. ape) is not more "privileged" than any of its hyponyms (e.g. human). Halliday & Matthiessen (1999: 14):
the paradigmatic network is ordered in delicacy (subsumption, classification, specialisation), from the least delicate (most general) to the most delicate (most specific types).
On the other hand, this, once again, misrepresents SFL methodology by taking the view 'from below', structural similarity, in determining how to organise a system.
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