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 |