"The Only Possible Conclusion"

Fawcett (2010: 129):

At this point in the development of the argument, the only possible conclusion is that it would only be desirable to try to construct a component of the grammar for integrating the various structures that correspond to strands of meaning if it could be shown that it is needed on independent grounds. In other words, we should not go down the road of turning the 'two-component' model of Figure 4 into the 'three-component' model of Figure 8 unless it is really necessary. In the next sub-section we shall see that it is not.

Blogger Comments:

[1] To be clear,  Fawcett's argument has been against the conflation of structures, but here he shifts to the integration of structures. As previously demonstrated, clause structures of the three metafunctions are not conflated, but they are integrated by the syntagm of group rank forms that realise them.

[2] This is misleading, because it presents Fawcett's model (Figure 4) as Halliday's model, and Fawcett's modification of his own model (Figure 8) as a solution to a problem that only arises through Fawcett misunderstanding Halliday's model to require the conflation of structures.