Matthiessen (1995: 700):
Now let us turn to non-identifiable determination. The interpretation given in IFG Section 6.2.1 will be used and elaborated on. Non-identifiable determination is not concerned with how to identify an already established instantiation but with how a class is instantiated — whether it is instantiated completely or only partially, whether it is instantiated selectively or not, and so on. The general distinctions are the same for both singular instantiations and non-singular (i.e., mass or plural) instantiations.
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To be clear, this again confuses a genuine nominal group system, DETERMINATION (Halliday & Matthiessen 2014: 366) with the 'identifiability' of the non-structural cohesive system of REFERENCE (Halliday & Matthiessen 2014: 623).
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