Technical discourse: The present progressive tense, the deictic “that,” and pronominalizationFootnote∗

Acknowledgements: I'd like to thank the people at the Institute for Semantic and Cognitive Studies, Geneva, Switzerland, for their financial and intellectual assistance in my examination of technical discourses. I'd also like to thank Pat Murray, Brad Goodman, and Livia Polanyi for reading drafts of this paper, Susan Voss and Marlene Vigil for the manuscript preparation.

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