statementssuch

Statementssuch is a term used in linguistics and computational text analysis to denote the English connective phrase "statements such as." The coinage functions as a label for examining how authors introduce exemplars within broader arguments. It is not an established nomenclature in standard grammar references but serves as a convenient shorthand in discussions of exemplification constructions.

Grammatical role: The phrase "statements such as …" operates as a discourse marker and a demonstrative determiner, signaling that the following items belong to a class of examples. It can occur at sentence-initial or mid-sentence positions, and is compatible with both quoted exemplars and bare noun phrases: statements such as those above; statements such as "privacy matters" and "security concerns" illustrate the point.

In text processing, statementssuch may appear as a single token in misparsed corpora or OCR outputs where whitespace is lost. Practitioners may normalize it by separating into the canonical form "statements such as" during tokenization. For analytic purposes, it helps identify exemplification boundaries and the scope of the following list of items.

Examples: There are statements such as "All employees must log in daily" and statements such as "Data must be encrypted" that set expectations for compliance. Variants include "such statements as" and "statements as" in slightly different rhetorical contexts. Related concepts include exemplification, discourse markers, and list-intro phrases.