Ngo, Hood, Martin, Painter, Smith & Zappavigna (2022: 14-5):
The key interpersonal systems are NEGOTIATION and APPRAISAL. NEGOTIATION comprises resources for enacting social relations in dialogue. In terms of diversification it allows us, for example, to realise greeting moves through a range of more and less lexicalised structures:
(33) Hi everybody.
(34) Good morning.
(35) How’s it going?
(36) What a surprise!
(37) Lovely to see you!
(38) Didn’t know you were back in town.
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To be clear, NEGOTIATION — Martin's rebranding of Halliday's SPEECH FUNCTION — doesn't "allow" us to realise greetings grammatically, since higher strata do not "allow" lower strata; meaning does not "allow" wording in any sociosemiotic species. The realisation relation between strata is one type of elaborating identity: symbolic abstraction.
To be clear, greetings are a minor speech function which may be realised by nominal groups, minor clauses (with no mood structure) or major clauses. It is only when a greeting is realised by a major clause that it is constructed as a proposition or proposal, and so as negotiable. See Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 127, 195-6).
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