Wednesday 22 June 2016

Internal Complementarities: Indeterminacy Providing Polysystemicity

Halliday & Matthiessen (1999: 563):
Such complementarities [metafunctional, fractal, systemic and metaphorical] constitute one form of indeterminacy of the system — one that allows it to be "polysystemic" in the particular sense of embodying more than one way of construing experience.