Coherence and Cohesion in English Discourse

6.4 Results: Resultive/inferential conjuncts
Resultive/inferential conjuncts (cf. Table 2-4) indicate that what follows 
states the result or consequence – be it logical or practical – of what precedes, 
thus enhancing the readers’ interpretation and establishing discourse coherence. 
As can be seen from Table 2-4, conjuncts of this group are rather unevenly 
distributed, some of them (namely 
as a consequence, now, for this reason, in that 
case
) having a frequency of occurrence of one or no token at all in either corpus, 
while others amount to a normalized frequency rate of 1.06, as is the case of 
thus
, 
which is the most typical resultive/inferential conjunct in the NNSC in my data 
(for illustration, cf. e.g. Example (10) below).

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