Fawcett (2010: 246):
Diagram (a) in Figure 14 illustrates the two types of componence [branching and singulary], and Diagram (b) illustrates an alternative notation used by some grammarians for multiple branching (e.g., Halliday (1969/81:143), Hudson (1974/81), and Halliday (1994:17f.), in the chapter of IFG that discusses 'constituency').
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This is seriously misleading, because it falsely implies that Fawcett's notion of componence is consistent with IFG (Halliday 1994). Such notations play no part in Halliday's theory of grammar. Instead, Halliday (1994: 29) makes pedagogical use of constituency diagrams to distinguish class labels from function labels, as a means of guiding the reader from formal constituency to function structure:
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