Corpus Linguistics: Readings in a Widening Discipline

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Author: Geoffrey Sampson

ISBN-10: 082648803X

ISBN-13: 9780826488039

Category: Linguistics & Semiotics

Corpus Linguistics seeks to provide a comprehensive sampling of real-life usage in a given language, and to use these empirical data to test language hypotheses. Modern corpus linguistics began fifty years ago, but the subject has seen explosive growth since the early 1990s. These days corpora are being used to advance virtually every aspect of language study, from computer processing techniques such as machine translation, to literary stylistics, social aspects of language use, and improved...

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1Introduction12From The structure of English (1952)93A standard corpus of edited present-day American English (1965)274On the distribution of noun-phrase types in English clause-structure (1971)355Predicting text segmentation into tone units (1986)496Typicality and meaning potentials (1986)587Historical drift in three English genres (1987)678Corpus creation (1987)789Cleft and pseudo-cleft constructions in English spoken and written discourse (1987)8510What is wrong with adding one? (1989)9511A statistical approach to machine translation (1990)10312A point of verb syntax in South-Western British English : an analysis of a dialect continuum (1991)11313Using corpus data in the Swedish Academy grammar (1991)12214On the history of that zero as object clause links in English (1991)13715Encoding the British National Corpus (1992)14916Computer corpora - what do they tell us about culture? (1992)16017Representativeness in corpus design (1992)17418A corpus-driven approach to grammar : principles, methods, and examples (1993)19819Structural ambiguity and lexical relations (1993)21220Irony in the text or insincerity in the writer? : the diagnostic potential of semantic prosodies (1993)22921Building a large annotated corpus of English : the Penn Treebank (1993)24222Automatically extracting collocations from corpora for language learning (1994)25823Developing and evaluating a probabilistic LR parser of part-of-speech and punctuation labels (1995)26724Why a Fiji corpus? (1996)27625Treebank grammars (1996)28526English corpus linguistics and the foreign-language teaching syllabus (1996)29327Data-oriented language processing : an overview (1996)30428Conflict talk : a comparison of the verbal disputes between adolescent females in two corpora (1996)32629Assessing agreement on classification tasks : the kappa statistic (1996)33530Linguistic and interactional features of internet Relay Chat (1996)34031Distinguishing systems and distinguishing senses : new evaluation methods for word-sense disambiguation (1997)35332Qualification and certainty in L1 and L2 students writing (1997)37133Analysing and predicting patterns of DAMSL utterance tags (1998)38734Assessing claims about language use with corpus data - swearing and abuse (1998)39635The syntax of disfluency in spontaneous spoken language (1998)40436The use of large text corpora for evaluating text-to-speech systems (1998)42137The Prague Dependency Treebank : how much of the underlying syntactic structure can be tagged automatically? (1999)42738Reflections of a dendrographer (1999)43439A generic approach to software support for linguistic annotation using XML (2000)44940Europe's ignored languages (2001)46041Semi-automatic tagging of intonation in French spoken corpora (2001)46242Web as corpus (2001)47143Intonational variation in the British Isles (2002)474