 Some linguistic phenomena or parameters
recur in the text. You must use the same rules every time
you come across a similar case and need to make a judgment.
These rules are criteria that guarantee the consistency
of your analysis. In some cases the criteria are ready
made, for example, the manual count of the total number
of interclausal connectives in the preceding task. Your
knowledge of the two languages informs you that such connectives
appear at the beginning of a clause. All you have to do
is use an authoritative dictionary to see whether the
clause-initial word belongs to the lexical class of connectives.
Yet in most cases, the task would not be that easy. You
have to combine different sources - sometimes with controversial
viewpoints - and work out a set of criteria that would
be operable in your study.
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