Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 43):
As the upper of the two content strata within language, semantics is the interface between context and lexicogrammar. Semantics transforms experience and interpersonal relationships into linguistic meaning, and lexicogrammar transforms this meaning into words, as we put it above, adopting the speaker’s perspective.
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Note that this new addition to IFG by Halliday's reviser, Matthiessen, construes each of semantics and lexicogrammar as both the Assigner and Value of these identifying relations — as both the Agent and Range of the Process.
semantics
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transforms
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experience and interpersonal relationships
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into
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linguistic meaning
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Assigner
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Process: relational
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Identified Token
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Identifier Value
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and
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lexicogrammar
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transforms
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this meaning
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into
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words
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Assigner
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Process: relational
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Identified Token
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Identifier Value
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