Abbreviations
A Discourse Act; addressee
ADS Archetypal Discourse
Structure
Ass Assertive sentence
C communicated content;
clause
c content
CB Cobuild Corpus
CDS current discourse space
Cl Clause
Config configuration
ContrFoc Contrastive Focus
CS Columbia School of Lin-
guistics
D discourse
DCH Discourse Categories Hi-
erarchy
DECL declarative
DM Discourse Model
DRS Discourse Representation
Structure
DRT Discourse Representation
Theory
D-Topic Discourse Topic
E State of Affairs
ECC extraclausal constituent
EL Expression Level
EMT Extended Multiple
Theme
ER Expression rules
ET Experiential Theme
F Property or Relation
FDG Functional Discourse
Grammar
FG Functional Grammar
FncFtrs functional features
FPG Functional Procedural
Grammar
FrmFtrs formal features
GFT General Functional The-
ory
GH Givenness Hierarchy
GivTop Given Topic
GPH Generalized Parallelism
Hypothesis
GPSG Generalized Phrase
Structure Grammar
H hearer
HDPSG Head Driven Phrase
Structure Grammar
IDCG Incremental Discourse
Cognitive Grammar
IFG Incremental Functional
Grammar
IL Interpersonal Level
ILL Illocution (of the expres-
sion)
INFRM Informing move
IS Information Structure
ISO International Standardi-
zation Organization
IT Interpersonal Theme
L actual language
Lab label
Lcog general cognitive repre-
sentation language
Lex Lexeme
LFG Lexical Functional
Grammar
LIBMSEC Lancaster IBM Spoken
English Corpus