Friday, 17 April 2015

Instantiation Misconstrued As (Inverted) Realisation

discourse semantic systems merely instantiate grammar systems in texts (David Rose, Sysfling 23/3/15)


discourse semantic systems
merely
instantiate
grammar systems
in texts
Token

Process: identifying
Value
Location


Note:

In the architecture of SFL, grammar systems (Token) realise semantic systems (Value).

(Instantiation is the relation between system and instance, not between strata.)

Wednesday, 15 April 2015

Being Wrong

There’s nothing wrong with being wrong. (David Rose, Sysfling 31/3/15)


There
‘s
nothing [[(that is) wrong]]
with [[being wrong]]

Process: existential
Existent
Matter


[[being wrong]]
is not
wrong
Carrier
Process: relational
Attribute
Process: relational
Attribute


Cf. There's nothing immoral about being immoral; being immoral is not immoral.