Corpus-based Studies in Language Use, Language Learning, and Language Documentation.

Contents John Newman, Sally Rice and Harald Baayen: Introduction Language Use Kristina Geeraert and John Newman: I haven't drank in weeks: the use of past tense forms as past participles in English corpora Conor Snoek: Irregular -im suffixation in Tok Pisin: exploratory methods in multivariate analysis Gunnar Bergh: Complex extractions in a diachronic perspective Laura Teddiman: Subject ellipsis by text type: an investigation using ICE-GB Language Learning Li-Shih Huang: Language learners as language researchers: the acquisition of English grammar through corpus-aided discovery learning approach mediated by intra- and interpersonal dialogues Laurence Anthony, Kiyomi Chujo and Kathryn Oghigian: A novel, web-based, parallel concordancer for use in the ESL/EFL classroom Christine Johansson and Christer Geisler: Syntactic aspects of the writing of Swedish L2 learners of English Hanhong Li and Alex C. Fang: Age tagging and word frequency for learners' dictionaries Language Documentation Brian MacWhinney: The expanding horizons of corpus analysis Giancarla Unser-Schutz: Developing a text-based corpus of the language of Japanese comics (manga) Christopher Cox: Corpus linguistics and language documentation: challenges for collaboration Steven H. Weinberger and Stephen A. Kunath: The Speech Accent Archive: towards a typology of English accents Mark Davies and Dee Gardner: Creating and using A frequency dictionary of Contemporary American English: word sketches, collocates, and thematic lists