Systemic Functional Grammar: A Next Step Into The Theory — Axial Relations

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  • Mistaking Saussure's Rejected Model For Saussure's 'Sign' [1]
  • Outline Of Chapter 5
  • Distinguishing Mood By Structural Realisation Instead Of The Meaning It Realises
  • Misunderstanding The Labelling Of Systems And Features
  • Outline Of Chapter 3
  • Confusing Function With Form
  • Outline Of Chapter 6
  • Misunderstanding What Saussure Was "Struggling Against"
  • Giving Priority To Form Over Function
  • Mistaking A Lower Rank Syntagm For A Higher Rank Function Structure

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  • Mistaking Saussure's Rejected Model For Saussure's 'Sign' [1]
  • Misunderstanding The Realisation Of Tense In English
  • Devising A System 'From Below' Instead Of 'From Above'
  • Misunderstanding What Saussure Was "Struggling Against"
  • Outline Of Chapter 5
  • Misrepresenting The Finiteness Of Imperative Clauses
  • Comparing Tagalog And English Person & Number Systems
  • Distinguishing Mood By Structural Realisation Instead Of The Meaning It Realises
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  • The Methodological Aberration That Undermines This Entire Monograph
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  • The Fundamental Misunderstanding Of Axis In This Monograph
  • Misunderstanding Recursive Systems And Misrepresenting 'Univariate'
  • The Motivation For Speech Function vs Mood
  • Looking Up To Discourse Semantics
  • Misrepesenting The 'General Disposition' Of Grammarians
  • "Foregrounding" Paradigmatic Relations
  • Misunderstanding Units, Elements And Systems As Relationships
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