Some discourse semantic options are also realised by a range of grammatical elements, sometimes simultaneously. Generalisations such as these are also difficult to capture within the grammar alone—cf. Figure 3.13 and Martin’s (1997) own critical discussion of the DEIXIS system as suggested as a grammatical system by Halliday. Martin therefore concludes that the relationship between his networks for IDENTIFICATION and those for the nominal group lexicogrammar are indeed more reminiscent of inter-stratal relationships than of intra-stratal relationships since they clearly display ‘interlocking diversification’ (Lockwood, 1972), thus supporting the stratification.
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[1] To be clear, on the one hand, discourse semantic options, by definition, cannot be "captured within the grammar alone", since they are not grammatical options; semantics (meaning) and grammar (wording) are distinct levels of symbolic abstraction. On the other hand, generalisation is modelled in SFL theory by the dimension of delicacy, not stratification.
[2] See the critique of Figure 3.13 here and of the argument Martin makes of it here.
[3] The thought that didn't occur to Bateman here is that Martin, in purporting to model 'reference as semantic choice' confuses the interpersonal deixis of the nominal group with the textual reference of non-structural cohesion, which is why he mistakenly "stratifies" the semantics of reference with regard to nominal group structure.
[4] Here Bateman reveals that, like Martin, he does not understand that the hierarchy of stratification is built on the principle of symbolic abstraction, whereby strata are related by the intensive identifying process of realisation.
[2] See the critique of Figure 3.13 here and of the argument Martin makes of it here.
[3] The thought that didn't occur to Bateman here is that Martin, in purporting to model 'reference as semantic choice' confuses the interpersonal deixis of the nominal group with the textual reference of non-structural cohesion, which is why he mistakenly "stratifies" the semantics of reference with regard to nominal group structure.
[4] Here Bateman reveals that, like Martin, he does not understand that the hierarchy of stratification is built on the principle of symbolic abstraction, whereby strata are related by the intensive identifying process of realisation.
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