On The Absence Of A Summary Statement Of Theoretical Concepts In IFG

Fawcett (2010: 98-9):

Thus, the twenty-two-page "Introduction" and the further two introductory chapters of IFG introduce many important and interesting ideas. And yet, even though much of the discussion is about 'constituency', there is no summary statement of the concepts that are required for the description of English in IFG that is in any way comparable to the earlier statement in "Categories".

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To be clear, as Halliday (1994: xxvii, xxvi) explicitly states in the Introduction:

This is not an account of systemic theory… No attempt is made to 'teach' the categories.

On the other hand, "Categories" (Halliday 1961) is an outline of a theory, though a different one: Scale & Category Grammar.