RT Journal Article
T1 Grammatical description and corpus evidence : supposing, assuming, considering
A1 Luzón Marco, María José
AB The use of large corpora provides abundant evidence of the actual usageof grammatical structures and function words and reveals the languagebehaviour of native speakers. One of the principles of corpus linguisticsis that meaning is contextual: we can only identify the meaning of itemsby investigating the contexts in which they occur. In this paper I use datafrom a large corpus of English to describe the usage of three grammarwords: supposing (that), assuming (that), considering (that). By analysingthe regularities in the context of use of these grammar words I attemptto describe their function in discourse and to reveal what one mustknow in order to use and understand these words correctly. The resultsshow that supposing (that), assuming (that) and considering (that.) conveydifferent implications concerning the factuality of the clauses where theyoccur.
YR 2010
FD 2010-04-28T10:35:58Z
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/3200
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/3200
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 31 may 2026