Fawcett (2010: 86-7):
The selection expression is the input to the realisation statements. The function of each of these is to specify, for a given feature in the system network, the operation through which that feature contributes to "the structural configuration" that is being generated. In "Systemic theory" Halliday specifies seven types of realisation statement, his claim being that every such statement conforms to one of the seven types. As we saw in Chapter 3, a theory of syntax must be concerned with how the grammar specifies both (1) the syntax potential and (2) the instances of syntax, i.e., the outputs from the grammar. In terms of Figure 4 in Chapter 3, then, Halliday's 'realisation statements' belong in the box labelled "realisation rules / statements".
I shall now list the set of types of 'realisation operation' given in "Systemic theory". However, I shall leave the full explanation and evaluation of each to Chapter 9 of Part 2, because they are relatively close to the set that is required for this component of a modern theory of syntax for a SF grammar — though the set to be introduced in Chapter 9 set is slightly fuller. They will therefore be explained and evaluated at that point, i.e., in Section 9.2.1 of Chapter 9.
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[1] To be clear, here Fawcett has momentarily switched from his red herring argument, of assessing Halliday (1993) in terms of Halliday (1961), to merely restating where Halliday's realisation statements are located in his own model (Figure 4), which, as previously explained over and over (e.g here), is riddled with internal inconsistencies that result from his theoretical misunderstandings.
[2] Here, once again, Fawcett primes the uncritical reader by promising a critique ('evaluation') elsewhere.
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