Misunderstanding Realisation Statements

Martin (2013: 66):

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This misunderstands realisation statements. Realisation statements are concerned with functions (e.g. Qualifier) in structures, not with forms (e.g. phrase, clause) that realises such functions. Halliday (2003 [1994]: 434-5):

Realisation statements are of seven types:

(a) 'insert' an element (e.g. insert subject);

(b) 'conflate' one element with another (e.g. conflate subject with theme);

(c) 'order' an element with respect to another, or to some defined location (e.g. order finite auxiliary before subject);

(d) 'classify' an element (e.g. classify process as mental: cognition);

(e) 'split' an element into a further configuration (e.g. split mood into subject + finite);

(f) 'preselect' some feature at a lower rank (e.g. preselect nominal group: human collective); and

(g) 'lexify' an element (e.g. lexify subject: it).

This also repeats the previously noted misunderstanding of of as a linker.