ABSTRACT
The main aim of this chapter is to identify, describe and illustrate one of the principal ways in which nominal groups are used to connect and organize written discourse. This type of nominal-group lexical cohesion will be referred to as labelling. Two types of label will be identified: these will be termed advance and retrospective labels. The examples given to illustrate the use of these are all from the Bank of English collection of corpora held at Cobuild, Birmingham, and, in particular, the corpus containing a series of complete editions of The Times.
