The Linguistics of Punctuation (Lecture Notes) by Geoffrey Nunberg

Author:Geoffrey Nunberg [Nunberg, Geoffrey]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9780937073469
Publisher: CSLI
Published: 2015-07-20T04:00:00+00:00

oil a shallow baking pan that will hold the fish nicely

wash the fish and pat dry

set aside

put the shrimp through a food grinder

combine with egg, salt, pepper, sherry and cream add vegetables…

In this case, it is left entirely to the reader to infer the hierarchical relations among the elements of the argument. In another context (for example in a spoken discourse) we might supply further information about such relations by explicit lexical stipulation, e.g. by saying such things as “That takes care of the goose sauce; now for the gander,” or more simply still, by the use of various lexical conjunctions. In a written (running) text, however, we have also available the option of using the hierarchical categories made available by the text-grammar, say by inscribing the lexical sentences that describe operations as text-sentences, and grouping together in separate paragraphs descriptions of operations that constitute a single sub-procedure, as in:

(6.2) ¶Preheat the oven to 350°.

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