Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 287):
And on the other hand we often interpret an Attribute not just as an instance of a class but in some sense the value of the entity it carries, e.g. Pat is a millionaire.
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The incoherence here arises from Matthiessen's mistaken rewording of Halliday (1994: 129):
And on the other hand we often interpret an Attribute not just as an instance of a class but in some sense the value of the entity that carries it, e.g. Pat is a millionaire.