Corpus Analysis and Variation in Linguistics

1. Message from the President (by Kameyama, Ikuo), p1-2; 2. Center for corpus-based linguistics and language education (by Minegishi, Makoto), p3-5; 3. Introduction (by Kawaguchi, Yuji), p7-24; 4. On the scope of linguistics: Data, intuitions, corpora (by Durand, Jacques), p25-52; 5. Education and the enforcement of standard English (by Chambers, J.K.), p53-66; 6. Variability and invariability in learner language: A corpus-based approach (by Tono, Yukio), p67-82; 7. Lexical variations in "Singapore English": Linguistic description and language education (by Pakir, Anne), p83-102; 8. Computer-mediated language and corpus linguistics (by Ooi, Vincent B.Y.), p103-120; 9. Making a list of essential phrasal verbs based on large corpora and phrasal verb dictionaries (by Ishii, Yasutake), p121-140; 10. Generation of word profiles for large German corpora (by Geyken, Alexander), p141-157; 11. Modeling change: A historical sociolinguistics perspective on French negation (by Martineau, France), p159-178; 12. Phonetic input, phonological categories and orthographic representations: A psycholinguistic perspective on why language education needs oral corpora. The case of French-Japanese interphonology development (by Detey, Sylvain), p179-200; 13. Language choice of bilingual federal public servants in Canada: With an emphasis on their perception of passive bilingualism (by Yazu, Norie), p201-222; 14. Lexical variation of urban Spanish (by Ueda, Hiroto), p223-238; 15. Palatal graphemes in a medieval Spanish biblical text: A corpus analysis of "i, j, y" in Genesis, Biblia de Alba (by Ueda, Hiroto), p239-257; 16. Argument structure, animacy, syntax and semantics of passivization in Turkish: A corpus-based approach (by Ozsoy, A. Sumru), p259-279; 17. A corpus-driven analysis of -r dropping in spoken Turkish (by Kawaguchi, Yuji), p281-297; 18. The use of -ag- in colloquial Swahili in Tanzania: Report of a preliminary survey conducted in 2008 (by Abe, Yuko), p299-313; 19. A study on the pragmatic functions of ialah and adalah in Malay (by Uzawa, Hiroshi), p315-338; 20. Aspects of style-shifting in Japanese (by Shibuya, Katsumi), p339-360; 21. Necessity of corpora for Japanese dialectology: From the viewpoints of dialect contact and the consciousness of dialect inexistence (by Abe, Shin), p361-378; 22. Mitigation strategies in expressions of disagreement adopted by intermediate learners of Japanese (by Kobayakawa, Maiko), p379-392; 23. Index of proper nouns, p393-395; 24. Index of subjects, p396-398; 25. Contributors, p399