transitivity Analysis can identify the development of the human language according to the analysis done by Halliday and Roqaia Hassen on the work of William Golding's novel " the inheritors"
This query informs me about two things I did not know exist in systemic linguistics. Although cognitive linguistics has drawn extensively from Halliday's linguistics through its functional window, systemic linguistics is not known to have shed light onto the human mind. It is cognitive linguistics that did it. The second thing, I learn for the first time that systemic linguistics was really concerned about the development of the human language. Such a concern could be sought in, for instance, Tomasello (1999): The Cultural Origin of Human Cognition.
I share Maalej's point of view: systemic linguistics is not known to have shed light onto the human mind. It is cognitive linguistics that did it. Moreover, which version of so-called 'systemic linguistics' are we speaking of ?