1 Abstracts 1
1.1 Definitions 1
1.2 Classification 2
1.3 Values 3
1.4 Writing Style 4
2 Syntax 10
2.1 Definitions 10
2.2 Linguistic Approaches 11
3 A Syntactic Study of Medical RA Abstracts 13
3.1 Purpose 13
3.2 Theoretical Considerations 14
3.3 Methods 34
3.4 Results 43
3.5 Conclusions 90
4 Syntactic Features of Medical RA Abstracts 94
4.1 Types of Sentences 94
4.2 Verbs 104
5 Implications 111
5.1 Theoretical Implications 111
5.2 Practical Implications 112
Appendixes 113
References 131