<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Dear Alex,<div>It is important when doing fieldwork or working on any natural language data to look at different genre, as the grammatical patterns can be quite different. A famous example is Hopper and Thompson’s famous 1980 paper on transitivity, which was based only on narratives. They later (2001) published a second paper in which they reported looking at conversation, and found the generalizations they posited in 1980 only held for narrative. </div><div><br></div><div>In my own fieldwork I had found that procedural texts often show different patterns from narratives and conversations. In the attached file I give some examples.</div><div><br></div><div>All the best,</div><div>Randy LaPolla</div><div><br></div><div></div></body></html>