The Concepts Required For The Structural Description Of A String Of Words

Fawcett (2010: 104):

For the purposes of analysing a string of words in a text, it is necessary to be able to specify the concepts that are required for the structural description of that string of words — and to be able to do so, moreover, without drawing at every stage on one's knowledge of the procedures by which the string of words was generated. In other words, it must be possible to carry out the process of analysing the syntax of a text (traditionally known as parsing) independently of the process of generation.

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To be clear, in the case of SFL Theory, the concepts that are required for the structural description of a string of words in a text are specified in all four editions of IFG:

1. Halliday (1985)
2. Halliday (1994)
3. Halliday & Matthiessen (2004)
4. Halliday & Matthiessen (2014).