Matthiessen (1995: 698):
Like THEMATISATION, DETERMINATION depends on a dynamic model of the environment in which the text is unfolding, in particular of the current state of development from the point of view of the addressee. In this dynamic text model, it has to be possible to determine whether a given referent is identifiable or not to the addressee. (Non-identifiable determiners in particular overlap in coverage with the quantifiers of formal logic, but the distinctions are not the same.)
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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).
Non-structural cohesive systems are not systems of the nominal group, since systems of the nominal group specify the structure of the nominal group, relationships between its elements, whereas systems of COHESION do not.
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