Corpus Linguistics

Name: Corpus Linguistics | Readings in a Widening Discipline
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Readings in a Widening Discipline

Geoffrey Sampson Diana McCarthy(Autor*in)

Continuum Publishing Corporation

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Erschienen am 1. Oktober 2005

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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 language-teaching methods.

Because corpus linguistics has grown fast from small beginnings, newcomers to the field often find it hard to get their bearings. Important papers can be difficult to track down. This volume reprints forty-two articles on corpus linguistics by an international selection of authors, which comprehensively illustrate the directions in which the subject is developing. It includes articles that are already recognized as classics, and others which deserve to become so, supplemented with editorial introductions relating the individual contributions to the field as a whole.

This collection of readings will be useful to students of corpus linguistics at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, as well as academics researching this fascinating area of linguistics.

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...I highly recommend Corpus Linguistics: Readings in a Widening Discipline to anyone with any interest in linguistic corpora. Besides bringing students and practitioners of other branches of linguistics up to speed on advances in modern corpus linguistics, this volume may as a secondary effect help inform applied, computational, descriptive, and even theoretical linguists about each other's fields... In any event, this collection is a wonderful addition to the currently available textbooks on corpus linguistics, and provides yet another reason that, as the editors say in their introduction, 'this is a good time to bcome a corpus linguist'. Robert Malouf, San Diego State University. Compuational Linguistics "The editors have made significant contributions to the area of corpus linguistics and here they provide a coherent presentation of the approach enunciated in various arenas over the years. The result is a collection of articles intended as a basic source book of 'background knowledge' for students working in the field of corpus linguistics.... are numerous features that make the book easily accessible and thoroughly rewarding to read.... Overall, the book is an extremely valuable resource on its own, not only for corpus linguists as a valuable reference. Those newly interested in the area will also find the volume an essential collection, not least to understand the wider field of corpus linguistics and the historical developments it has undergone. The richness of the book is the editors' vast collective experience and knowledge in presenting the development in terms of linguistic research..... This is an impressive volume that demonstrates just how far the field has progressed over the last 50 years." -Linguist List, April 2006 '...the book has been compiled with a lot of thought, covering a large number of different topic areas within corpus linguistics. The editors' introductions to each chapter are very useful as they do not only briefly summarize the chapter but also put it into context for the readers. All chapters are relatively short so that they are not overwhelming for a reader new to the area and all were selected for their importance to the field of corpus linguistics.' * Blurb from reviewer * '...the book is an extremely valuable resource to own, not only for corpus linguists as reference, but also for those newly interested in the area to understand the wider field of corpus linguistics as well as the historical development that it has undergone.' Ute Knoch, University of Auckland, New Zealand. Review on LinguistList. * Blurb from reviewer *

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Intro
Contents
Sources and acknowledgements
Abbreviations used in this book
1 Introduction
2 From The Structure of English (1952)
3 A standard corpus of edited present-day American English (1965)
4 On the distribution of noun-phrase types in English clause-structure (1971)
5 Predicting text segmentation into tone units (1986)
6 Typicality and meaning potentials (1986)
7 Historical drift in three English genres (1987)
8 Corpus creation (1987)
9 Cleft and pseudo-cleft constructions in English spoken and written discourse (1987)
10 What is wrong with adding one? (1989)
11 A statistical approach to machine translation (1990)
12 A point of verb syntax in south-western British English: an analysis of a dialect continuum (1991)
13 Using corpus data in the Swedish Academy grammar (1991)
14 On the history of that/zero as object clause links in English (1991)
15 Encoding the British National Corpus (1992)
16 Computer corpora - what do they tell us about culture? (1992)
17 Representativeness in corpus design (1992)
18 A corpus-driven approach to grammar: Principles, Methods, and Examples (1993)
19 Structural ambiguity and lexical relations (1993)
20 Irony in the text or insincerity in the writer? The diagnostic potential of semantic prosodies (1993)
21 Building a large annotated corpus of English: the Penn Treebank (1993)
22 Automatically extracting collocations from corpora for language learning (1994)
23 Developing and evaluating a probabilistic LR parser of part-of-speech and punctuation labels (1995)
24 Why a Fiji corpus? (1996)
25 Treebank grammars (1996)
26 English corpus linguistics and the foreign-language teaching syllabus (1996)
27 Data-oriented language processing: an overview (1996)
28 Conflict talk: A comparison of the verbal disputes between adolescent females in two corpora (1996)
29 Assessing agreement on classification tasks: the kappa statistic (1996)
30 Linguistic and interactional features of Internet Relay Chat (1996)
31 Distinguishing systems and distinguishing senses: New evaluation methods for word-sense disambiguation (1997)
32 Qualification and certainty in L1 and L2 students' writing (1997)
33 Analysing and predicting patterns of DAMSL utterance tags (1998)
34 Assessing claims about language use with corpus data - swearing and abuse (1998)
35 The syntax of disfluency in spontaneous spoken language (1998)
36 The use of large text corpora for evaluating text-to-speech systems (1998)
37 The Prague Dependency Treebank: how much of the underlying syntactic structure can be tagged automatically? (1999)
38 Reflections of a dendrographer (1999)
39 A generic approach to software support for linguistic annotation using XML (2000)
40 Europe's ignored languages (2001)
41 Semi-automatic tagging of intonation in French spoken corpora (2001)
42 Web as corpus (2001)
43 Intonational variation in the British Isles (2002)
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