'Mean' As Qualitative Process

See Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 271).

Theme vs Subject

Decoding A Text By Reference To A Variety Expression

'Smattering' As Numerative

Attribute As Marked Theme Of Dependent Clause

Being And Nothingness

Classifying Registers By The Context Features They Realise

Language — Not Context

'Sneak' As Happening, Doing, Behaving And Targeted Saying

The lexical choice of 'sneak' adds a Quality feature to the Process.

In The Absence Of Isochronicity Or Synchrony

This question was asked by Jim Martin on the asflanet discussion list. Strangely, he received no replies. Halliday & Matthiessen (1999: 272): 

So the more the extent of grammatical metaphor in a text, the more that text is loaded against the learner, and against anyone who is an outsider to the register in question. It becomes elitist discourse, in which the function of constructing knowledge goes together with the function of restricting access to that knowledge, making it impenetrable to all except those who have the means of admission to the inside, or the select group of those who are already there. It is this other potential that grammatical metaphor has, for making meaning that is obscure, arcane and exclusive, that makes it ideal as a mode of discourse for establishing and maintaining status, prestige and hierarchy …

How SFL Theory Accounts For The Structure Marker 'Of'

The structure marker of is analysed as a constituent of the embedded prepositional phrase serving as Postmodifier in the logical structure of a nominal group:

Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 425):

We noted above that prepositional phrases serve either as Adjunct or as Postmodifier. The exception is prepositional phrases with of, which normally occur only as Postmodifier; the reason is that they are not typical prepositional phrases, because in most of its contexts of use of is functioning not as minor Process/Predicator but rather as a structure marker in the nominal group (cf. to as a structure marker in the verbal group).

Korean Nominal Group With 2 Epithets

"The Reaction Object Construction (ROC)"

 

The lexical choice of verb adds a behavioural manner to the verbal Process.

Solar Electron Neutrinos

Serbian Nominal Groups

Extending Paratactic Adverbial Group Complex As Attribute

Decoding Revolution

Self-Consciousness Without Higher-Order Consciousness

Primary Consciousness Without Self-Consciousness

A Nominal Group With Two Epithets

Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 388, 389):