Matthiessen (1995: 663):
Deictic, Postdeictic and Numerative are concerned with various aspects of the selection of instantial representatives of the general experiential category construed by the nominal group - whether they are recoverable/ identifiable to the addressee or not, how they are selected (as typical, usual, possible, etc. representatives), how many are selected, and so on.
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To be clear, this confuses the function of the Deictic as an element of nominal group structure, realising the system of DETERMINATION (Halliday & Matthiessen 2014: 365), with its non-structural cohesive function (recoverability, identifiability), realising the system of REFERENCE (Halliday & Matthiessen 2014: 623).
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