In:Imperative-Based Dialogic Constructions and Discourse Units
Vassiliki Geka
[Constructional Approaches to Language 39] 2025
► pp. xxi–xxiv
List of abbreviations
Published online: 1 April 2025
https://doi.org/10.1075/cal.39.loa
https://doi.org/10.1075/cal.39.loa
A
Addressee
a
Announcement of unexpected information
(a/j)
Amendment/justification
ACT
Actants
ADJ
Adjuncts
Adv Compl
Adverbial complement
AFF
Affective
Asymp. Sig.
Asymptotic significance
‘believe-constructions/family’
believe me, believe you me, believe it or not
believe (you) me
believe me / believe you me
BNC
British National Corpus
(c)
Clarification
Cat V
Category verb
CED
Cambridge English Dictionary
ch
Challenge
CIRC
Circumstants
CL
Corpus Linguistics
CLT
Central Limit Theorem
COCA
Corpus of Contemporary American English
ColED
Collins English Dictionary
Constr.
Constructional
CxG
Construction Grammar
Cxn
construction
DD
Dialogual-Dialogic
DM
Dialogual-Monologic
DPs
Discourse particles
(d/p)
Disputable proposition
DSMs
Discourse structuring markers
D(s)Ms
Discourse (structuring) markers
df
Difference
e
Elaboration part
(F)
Frequency sets/categories
F0
Fundamental frequency
Fully comp.
Fully compositional
grfn Obj
Grammatical function Object
grfn Subj
Grammatical function Subject
Ho
Initial hypothesis
IE
Intensifying elements
IL
Interactional Linguistics
IMP
Imperative
InS
Information Structure
INTR
Intransitive
(i/p)
Initial proposition
IRC
Incredulity Response Construction
IRE
Initiation — Reply/Response – Evaluation
IS
Independent sentence
(ISS)
Independent Sentential Status
K-S test
The Kolmogorov-Smirnov test
KWIC
Key Word in Context
KW test
The Kruskal-Wallis test
lxm
Lexeme
M
Mean
max+
Maximality feature
MD
Monologual-dialogic
MM
Monologual-Monologic
(MR)
Mean Rank
MWW test
The Mann Whitney Wilcoxon test
MCFs
Morphosyntactic contextual features
N
The total number of corpus population
n
The sampled population
neg-
Disallowing negation
NP
Noun Phrase
OBJ
Object
Obj+
Allowing object (in/animate)
OED
Oxford English Dictionary
P
Parenthetical position
PF
Positional flexibility
/p/
Proposition
/pCON/
Conditional protasis
/pi/
Proposition-related inferencing
prag
Prag(matics)
p-value
Possibility
/qCON/
Conditional apodosis
R
Range
(r)
Rectification
Rel
Relation/related
RQ(s)
Research Question(s)
S
Speaker
(s)
Signalling
Sig.
Significance
Subj/SBJ
Subject
SDRT
Segmented Discourse Representation Theory
sem
Sem(antics)
SF
Sentence-final position
SI
Sentence-initial position
StD
Standard Deviation
Subj-
Disallowing subject
syn
Syn(tactic)
TR
Transitive
u/i
Unexpected information
V
Verb
WXDY
what’s x doing y?
θ-roles
Theta roles
