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  • Textual Meaning And Higher Levels Of Contextualisation
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  • Misrepresenting Verbal Clauses
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  • The Difference Between Martin's 'Activity Sequence' And Halliday's 'Sequence'
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  • Confusing The Context Plane With The Content Plane
  • Misrepresenting Tenor And Misunderstanding Power And Solidarity
  • The Problem With Exercise 5: Recognising Pre-Elements
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  • A Serious Problem That Invalidates The 'Dimensional' Subtype Of Focus
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My Reviews Of SFL Books And Papers

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    The Methodological Aberration That Undermines This Entire Monograph
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    "Granting These Structural Orphans A Home"
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    The Univariate Structure Of A Passive Verbal Group
  • Yaegan Doran On Structure Types
    Overall Assessment
  • Lexis As Most Local Context (Fontaine 2017)
    Fontaine's Achievement In This Paper
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