Table 2.
Types and numbers of markables (referential expressions).
| Type of markable | Comment | Number in corpus | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Reduced referential devices | Sum of #2 to #7 | 1373 |
| 2. | Personal pronouns | 495 | |
| 3. | Possessive pronouns | 264 | |
| 4. | Zeroes | 375 | |
| 5. | Demonstratives | 67 | |
| 6. | Relative pronouns | 135 | |
| 7. | Other | 37 | |
| 8. | Full noun phrases | Sum of #9 and #18 minus #27∗) | 5042 |
| 9. | Descriptions | Sum of #10 to #15 | 3517 |
| 10. | The-descriptions | 1241 | |
| 11. | A-descriptions | 420 | |
| 12. | Bare descriptions | 1200 | |
| 13. | Demonstrative descriptions | E.g. this house | 88 |
| 14. | Possessive descriptions | E.g. his house, the company’s shares | 490 |
| 15. | Other | 78 | |
| Special subtypes | |||
| 16. | Attributive descriptions | E.g. the American president; the first American president who was elected… | 1458 |
| 17. | Numeral descriptions | E.g. the two books | 136 |
| 18. | Proper names | Sum of #19 to #25∗) | 1681 |
| 19. | First names | 21 | |
| 20. | Last names | 229 | |
| 21. | First plus last names | 193 | |
| 22. | Initials plus last names | E.g. G.W.Bush | 1 |
| 23. | Non-persons | Names of countries, organizations, units, etc. | 915 |
| 24. | Acronyms | E.g. GE, the US | 277 |
| 25. | Other | 45 | |
| Special subtype | |||
| 26. | Titled proper names | E.g. Mr. Bush | 162 |
| 27. | Mix: description plus proper name | E.g. President Bush | 156 |
| TOTAL | 6415 | ||
∗Special subtypes in lines 16–17 and 26 cross-cut the mutually exclusive subtypes appearing in lines 10–15 and 19–25, respectively, and therefore are not summed with those in the counts shown in lines 9 and 18.