No.

Major discourse fields/category labels

Examples

Frequency of occurrence

Five major semantic fields

A

General and abstract terms

227

A9+

Getting and possession

accept, receive, have, keep, obtain

23

A1.1.1

General actions/making

process, make, prepare

16

A9−

Giving

provide, submit, contribution, offers

16

A7+

Likely

can, may, ensure, possible

14

A2.2

Cause & Effect/Connection

link, result, responsible

13

Q

Language and communication

160

Q2.2

Speech acts

declare, acknowledgement, references

43

Q1.2

Paper documents and writing

manuscripts, text, list, writing

40

Q3

Language, speech and grammar

languages, bilingualism, linguistics, phonetics

19

Q2.1

Speech: Communicative

statement, discussion, summary

18

Q4.1

The Media: Books

authors, readership, publisher

15

Q4

The Media

editor, publishing, reviewer

13

Z

Names and grammar

154

Z5

Grammatical bin

the, to, of, and

70

Z99

Unmatched

Elsevier, http, www, org

36

X

Psychological actions, states and processes

91

X7+

Wanted

requirements, policy, wish, purposes

17

X2.4

Investigate, examine, test, search

research, review, check

16

X4.2

Mental object: Means, method

methodology, ways, system

11

N

Numbers and measurements

76

N4

Linear order

first, prior, previous

13

Most frequently occurring category labels outside the five major semantic fields

M6

Location and direction

on, where, out, there

18

Y2

Information technology and computing

web, online, software, upload

16

S8+

Helping

guidelines, service, support

16

O2

Objects generally

files, file, products

13

P1

Education in general

teaching, study, academic, education

11

M2

Putting, pulling, pushing, transporting

send, place, deposit

11

S5+

Belonging to a group

institution, association, affiliation

11

O4.1

General appearance and physical properties

image, template, format

10