ABSTRACT

In Chapters 4, 5 and 6, we concentrated on the main categories of SW&TP on each of the three discourse presentation scales. In this chapter, we turn to three specific phenomena that we noticed in the process of annotating our corpus, and that we took into account in various ways in our annotation system. These phenomena can all be found on each of the three presentation scales. We will examine quotation phenomena in 7.1, hypothetical SW&TP in 7.2, and embedded SW&TP in 7.3. We will conclude the chapter with a discussion of ambiguity in SW&TP, based on an analysis of portmanteau tags in the corpus and a more general consideration of the way in which we established boundaries between our categories in the process of annotation (section 7.4).