Signalling Nouns in English: A Corpus-Based Discourse Approach

ISBN: 9781108403894 出版年：2015 页码：306 John Flowerdew Richard W Forest Cambridge University Press

1. Introduction 2. Grammatical features of signalling nouns 3. Semantic features 4. Discourse features 5. Criteria for determining what constitutes a signalling noun in this study 6. Corpus, methodology, annotation system, and reporting of the data 7. Set of examples 8. Overview of signalling noun distributions in the corpus 9. Overview of semantic categories 10. Overview of lexicogrammatical and discourse pattern frequencies 11. Conclusion References Appendix A. The overall structure of the corpus Appendix B. List of texts that make up the corpus Appendix C. Lemmatised SNs in descending order according to normalised frequency Appendix D. Non-lemmatised SNs in descending order according to normalised frequency Appendix E. Lemmatised SNs in alphabetical order Appendix F. Non-lemmatised SNs in alphabetical order Appendix G. Frequency of SNs in different semantic categories.