list of written language functions?

John Milton (lcjohn@uxmail.ust.hk)
Fri, 20 Sep 1996 14:29:07 +0800 (HKT)

Has anyone produced a relatively comprehensive typology of categories
of language functions by which phrases can be indexed? I'm aware of
Nattinger & DeCurrico's book, but they do not attempt to be comprehensive
and appear to concentrate more on spoken language. I'm interested in
functional, syntactic and any other categories into which strings
of written text have been placed. The lists I'm trying to organize
consist of expressions such as:

In this case
It has also been
It can be seen that
A(n) (good) example of this is
This is not to say that
...

Thanks for any help.
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John Milton
lcjohn@uxmail.ust.hk
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology