Recommending Work Inconsistent With IFG

 Martin, Matthiessen & Painter (2010: 239, 271):

The ‘minimal length’ approach will allow for a consistency in the analysis, but has the disadvantage that some logico-semantic relations (particularly of elaboration) are likely to be missed. This may not be considered too serious a drawback if the text is also being analysed at the discourse-semantic level, in terms of CONJUNCTION. (See Chapter 7; also IFG2 9.4, IFG3 9.3 and Martin 1992: Chapter 4; Martin & Rose 2007: Chapter 4.) …

Further reading

Martin, J R 1992 English text: system and structure. Chapter 4. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

[The semantic resources of conjunctive relations are discussed here, with the clause complex as one type of realisation.]

Blogger Comments:

To be clear, Martin's discourse semantic system of CONJUNCTION is inconsistent with IFG in that it is a confusion of two grammatical systems: clause complexing (logical metafunction) and cohesive conjunction (textual metafunction). Evidence here (Martin 1992) and here (Martin & Rose 2007).