Working with German Corpora

Foreword vii John Sinclair xi Editor's preface xi Bill Dodd Note on language corpora and software xiii Ramesh Krishnamurthy and Bill Dodd Notes on contributors xxiii Introduction 1 The relevance of corpora to German studies Bill Dodd Corpus analysis in the service of literary criticism: Goethe's Die Wahlverwandtschaften as a model case 40 Gordon J. A. Burgess When Ost meets West: a corpus-based study of binomial and other expressions before and during German unification 69 Bill Dodd German be- verbs revisited: using corpus evidence to investigate valency 96 Piklu Gupta A corpus-based study of German accusative/dative prepositions 116 Randall L. Jones Translators at play: exploitations of collocational norms in German-English translation 143 Dorothy Kenny 'Die schone Geschichte': a corpus-based analysis of Thomas Mann's Joseph und seine Bruder 161 Ann Lawson Towards a corpus-based comparison of two journals in the field of business and management German 181 April Mackison The ASTCOVEA German Grammar in conText Project 199 Peter Roe An electronic corpus of Early New High German 217 Jonarhan West Rights and obligations in legal contracts: corpus evidence 245 Anne Wichmann and Jane Nielsen Inflected and periphrastic subjunctive verb forms in German newspaper texts of the 1960s and 1990s 267 Nic Witton Index 297