Which brings us to IFG Fig.6-2 The nominal group system network: determination
Deixis articulates lexicogrammar with discourse semantics, but I’m not sure this network distinguishes LG and DS criteria. The personal/demonstrative and determinative/interrogative systems are clearly LG, but more delicate systems are DS - interactant/non-interactant and selective/non-selective (ET’s directed/undirected).That may explain its fuzziness of selective/non-selective criteria (system not named)?How to represent more clearly??PS In Australian lgs, personal Deictics precede Thing and demonstrative Deictics follow Thing.
[1] To be clear, this metaphor is theoretical nonsense. DEIXIS is a lexicogrammatical system of the nominal group; lexicogrammar and semantics are different levels of symbolic abstraction.
[2] To be clear, this is theoretical nonsense. A grammatical network does not "distinguish discourse semantic criteria" because it models grammatical potential, not semantic potential.
[3] To be clear, this is theoretical nonsense. The more delicate systems of a grammatical systems are, unsurprisingly, grammatical, not semantic, since semantic systems are on the semantic stratum, not the grammatical stratum.
[4] To be clear, the feature 'selective' merely provides the entry condition for more delicate selections, in number and proximity, whereas the feature 'non-selective' does not.
[5] To be clear, this claim is contradicted by Rose's previously posted analysis of his own data, where the demonstrative nani 'this' precedes the Thing daluk 'woman':
