Needlessly Rebranding Halliday's 'Pre-Deictic' As The Authors' 'Focus'

Martin, Matthiessen & Painter (2010: 205):

the bottom of the mug is best analysed as [Focus:] the bottom of + [Deictic:] the + [Thing:] mug.

Blogger Comments:

This is misleading. To be clear, the 'best analysis', in this context, is one that is consistent with the work that this publication purports to use as its reference, Halliday (1994: 196), which uses the term 'Pre-Deictic' for such elements: