212 Appendix 1
The three dots (.. .) in the text line indicate hesitations or pauses. No
information is available as to their duration. However in the grammar line
the three dots (.. .) indicate an incomplete/abandoned increment.
Line 1: Coding of she was a has been changed to N V d... to indicate
the abandoned nature of the increment.
Line 2: And is coded as c which indicates that it connects phrasal or
lexical elements. It is notated in lower script to indicate that it is
a suspensive element which does not lead to the creation
of a further intermediate state.
Car park is coded as a single nominal element. Also line (13)
door handles.
Line 4: She is the fi rst N in a reduplicative pair.
Line 7: There is no unrealized element after car as indicated by the
Ø symbol.
So is coded like and. See line 1.
Oh well is coded as an exclamation. Also line (19) oh.
Line 8: Anyway is coded as a suspensive A element.
Line 10: Turned up is coded as a PHR-V element.
Line 11: Faint is coded as a separate adjectival element.
Line 12: I mean is coded as a convention to indicate the fact that it func-
tions as an adverbial which indicates that the speaker is either
explaining something more clearly or justifying a statement or
comment previously made. It is notated in lower case to indicate
that it is a suspensive element: it does not lead to the creation of
a further intermediate state. Also line (14) you know.
Line 22: Just is coded as a suspensive A element.
Happens to look across is coded PHR-V to indicate that the verbs
are in phase.
Across is coded as an independent A element only because Cobuild
does not recognize look across as a phrasal verb.
Line 23: The elliptical nominal element which refers to the friend is coded
as Ø.