List of tables
Table 3.1
Word counts of two corpora
Table 4.1
Frequencies of discourse presentation in PREST and PAST
Table 4.2
Word counts of discourse presentation in PREST and PAST
Table 5.1
Frequencies of personal pronouns, proper nouns and determiner in PREST and
PAST
Table 5.2
Frequencies of proper nouns in 3rd- and 1st- person narratives in PREST and
PAST
Table 5.3
The most frequent proper nouns in PREST and PAST
Table 5.4
Frequencies of adjectives, attributive phrases and predicative uses in PREST
and PAST
Table 5.5
Frequently used adjectives in PREST and PAST
Table 5.6
Attributive and predicative uses of adjectives in serious/popular sections in
PREST and PAST
Table 5.7
Frequencies of finite verbs in PREST and PAST
Table 5.8
Frequencies of phrasal verbs in each discourse presentation mode and narration
in PREST and PAST
Table 5.9
Phrasal verbs occurring more than four times in PREST and PAST
Table 5.10
Frequencies of verb phrases in progressive aspect in PREST and PAST
Table 5.11
Frequencies of progressives in discourse presentation in PREST
Table 5.12
Frequencies of progressives in discourse presentation in PAST
Table 5.13
Frequencies of progressives in narration in PREST and PAST
Table 5.14
Frequencies of present progressives in thought presentation in PREST
Table 5.15
Distribution of functions of the present progressive in direct speech in
PREST and PAST
Table 6.1
Frequencies of speech presentation categories in PREST and PAST
Table 6.2
Word counts and mean lengths of speech presentation categories
Table 6.3
Frequencies of FDS in serious/popular divisions of PREST and PAST
Table 6.4
Frequencies of DS in serious/popular divisions of PREST and PAST
Table 6.5
Linking adverbials in NRS in PREST and PAST
Table 6.6
Positions of reporting clauses in DS in PREST and PAST
Table 6.7
Word counts of Sub DS-PREST and Sub DS-PAST
Table 6.8
Frequencies of finite verbs in Sub DS-PREST and Sub DS-PAST
Table 6.9
Key POS tags in Sub DS-PREST
Table 6.10
List of keywords in Sub-PREST
Table 6.11
Frequencies of usages of “time” in two sub-corpora
Table 6.12
Frequencies of usages of “tell” in two sub-corpora
Table 6.13
Syntactic subjects and objects of “tell” in two sub-corpora
Table 6.14
Distribution of the meanings of “just” in two sub-corpora
Table 6.15
Key POS tags in Sub DS-PAST
Table 6.16
List of keywords in Sub DS-PAST
Table 6.17
Frequencies of set phrases with “at” in two sub-corpora
Table 6.18
Usage of “could” and “would” in Sub DS-PAST
Table 6.19
Usage of “could” and “would” in Sub DS-PREST
Table 6.20
References of “they” in the two sub-corpora
Table 6.21
Four-grams in Sub DS-PREST
Table 6.22
Four-grams in Sub DS-PAST
Table 6.23
Key 4-grams in Sub DS-PREST
Table 6.24
Key 4-grams in Sub DS-PAST
Table 6.25
Raw frequencies of IS in each narrative type in PREST and PAST
Table 6.26
Raw frequencies of the most frequent reporting verbs in IS in PREST and
PAST
Table 6.27
Frequencies of NRSA and NRSAp in PREST and PAST
Table 6.28
Mean lengths of NRSA and NRSAp in PREST and PAST
Table 6.29
Distribution of NRSA in 1st-person and 3rd-person narrative in PREST and
PAST
Table 7.1
Frequencies of writing presentation categories in PREST and PAST
Table 7.2
Word counts and mean lengths of writing presentation categories
Table 7.3
Frequencies of FDW and DW in serious/popular divisions of two corpora
Table 7.4
Verbs in NRWA(p) as writing actions in PREST and PAST
Table 8.1
Frequencies of thought presentation categories in PREST and PAST
Table 8.2
Word counts and mean lengths of thought presentation categories
Table 8.3
Frequencies of direct forms in PREST and PAST
Table 8.4
Frequencies of features associated with FDT in PREST and PAST
Table 8.5
Frequent categories preceding FDT in PREST
Table 8.6
Frequent categories preceding FIT in PAST
Table 8.7
Number and type of occurrences of N preceding FDT in PREST
Table 8.8
Number and type of occurrences of N preceding FIT in PAST
Table 8.9
Frequent categories preceding FIT in PREST
Table 8.10
Number and type of occurrences of N preceding FIT in PREST
Table 8.11
Distribution of IT in PREST
Table 8.12
Distribution of IT in PAST
Table 8.13
Reporting verbs of IT which occur more than 4 times in PREST
Table 8.14
Reporting verbs of IT which occur more than 4 times in PAST
Table 8.15
Frequencies of NRTA and NRTAp in PREST and PAST
Table 8.16
Mean lengths of NRTA and NRTAp in PREST and PAST
Table 8.17
Distribution of NRTA(p) in PREST
Table 8.18
Distribution of NRTA(p) in PAST
Table 8.19
Mental act verbs of NRTA(p) occurring more than 4 times in PREST
Table 8.20
Mental act verbs of NRTA(p) occurring more than 4 times in PAST
Table 8.21
Distribution of NI in PREST
Table 8.22
Distribution of NI in PAST
Table 9.1
Frequencies of N in PREST and PAST
Table 9.2
Word counts and mean lengths of N
Table 9.3
Frequencies of finite verbs and attributive adjective in Sub N-PREST
Table 9.4
Lemmas collocating with “I” in Sub N-PREST-1st
Table 9.5
Lemmas collocating with “I” in Sub N-PAST-1st
Table 9.6
Frequencies of portmanteau tags (N-) in PREST and PAST
Table 9.7
Word counts and mean length of portmanteau tags (N-) in PREST and
PAST
Table 9.8
Distribution of N-FDT in PREST
Table 9.9
Frequent perception verbs in Sub N corpora
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