The Only System Network In This Entire Publication

Fawcett (2010: 298):

The key concept of a systemic functional grammar is a system — this term being used here in a technical sense where it means a 'choice between two or more semantic features'. The heart of the grammar is therefore the system network of semantic features. Consider the little example shown in Figure 1.

… It is the system network of semantic features that models the meaning potential of a language.

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[1] To be clear, in SFL Theory, systems construe the network of choices at all strata, not just semantics. For example, SPEECH FUNCTION is a semantic system, MOOD is a lexicogrammatical system, and TONE is a phonological system.

[2] To be clear, the most obvious problems with this semantic network are

• the distinction between 'mass' and 'count' and 'singular' and 'plural' nouns is grammatical, not semantic;
• it presents words as systemic features, and as subtypes of mass and count.