Martin (1992: 4):
Following Hjelmslev (1961), paradigmatic relations are mapped onto potential and syntagmatic relations are mapped onto actual; thus system is described in terms of paradigmatic oppositions, process in terms of syntagmatic structure. System and process are related through the important concept of realisation.
Blogger Comments:
[1] This confuses realisation and instantiation. The relation between the axes, paradigmatic and syntagmatic, is one of realisation. The relation between potential and actual is one of instantiation.
[2] This also confuses realisation and instantiation, but in a different way. Here the instantiation process is confused with the realisation of paradigmatic options as syntagmatic structure.
[3] This confuses syntagmatic structure and the process of instantiation. It isn't system and process that are related through realisation, but system and structure.
