A Systemic Functional Study of the Realization Statements of Numerative and Measure Items

Systemic grammar is realizational whereas transformational grammar is mutational. Language is interpreted in systemic theory as a RESOURCE instead of a rule system. One of the major changes between the Scale and Category Grammar and the Systemic Theory in SFL is the introduction of Realization Statements. Realization Statement is one way of modeling the relationship of realization; it consists of one realization Operator and one or more Operands. Five Realization Statements are mainly discerned in the SFL model-Insert, Order, Conflation, Expand and Preseletion. This paper conducts an exploratory and cross-language study of the Realization Statements of numerative and measure items in the framework of systemic functional grammar.