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Chapter 9 gives an elaborate account for Halliday’s conception of language as a probabilistic system. It conducts a holistic review of Halliday’s work on probability, and the focus of this chapter is on the probability of choice in language. Halliday’s characterization of probabilities in language are discussed as one continuous phenomenon extended along the cline of instantiation – systemic probabilities at the potential pole of the cline and their
instantiation as relative frequencies in particular texts at the instance pole.