... detached clause is defined Intonatlonally: it is bounded by pauses, has falling intonation at the end, or is preceded by a clause with fall- ing intonation (Thompson, 1983). This clause is ... information fields, each of which is stored on a stack. A set of rules is then applied to each entry on the stack, and assignment of each entry made Co one of the information categories on the ... second story in the corpus ("Lebanon Needs Israeli Troops, Shultz Told," Boston Globe, March 14, 1983) shows the heavy use of nominaii- zations to create a very long prepositions[...