Matthiessen (1995: 27):
The level above grammar is semantics, the system of meanings — the resources of meaning (meaning potential) available to the language user.
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To be clear, this is meaning potential as opposed to wording or sounding potential. In general, the term 'meaning potential' refers to language as system. Halliday (2003 [1985]: 192-3):
A language is a semiotic system; not in the sense of a system of signs, but a systemic resource for meaning — what I have often called a meaning potential (Halliday 1971).
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