Data and Methods in Corpus Linguistics

List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Comparative Approaches to Data and Methods in Corpus Linguistics Julia Schlueter and Ole Schuetzler; Part I. Corpus dimensions and the viability of methodological approaches; 1.Comparing standard reference corpora and Google Books Ngrams: Strengths, limitations and synergies in the contrastive study of variable h- in British and American English Lukas Soenning and Julia Schlueter; 2. Comparing approaches to phonological and orthographic corpus formats: Revisiting the Principle of Rhythmic Alternation Sabine Arndt-Lappe and Sebastian Hoffmann; Part II. Selection, calibration and preparation of corpus data; 3. Comparing approaches to (sub-)register variation: The 'press editorials' sections in the British, Canadian and Jamaican components of ICE Fabian Vetter; 4. Comparing baselines for corpus analysis: Research into the get-passive in speech and writing Sean Wallis and Seth Mehl; 5. Comparing study designs and down-sampling strategies in corpus analysis: The importance of speaker metadata in the BNCs of 1994 and 2014 Lukas Soenning and Manfred Krug; Part III. Perspectives on multifactorial methods; 6. Comparing generalised linear mixed-effects models, generalised linear mixed-effects model trees and random forests: Filled and unfilled pauses in varieties of English Tobias Bernaisch; 7. Comparing logistic regression, multinomial regression, classification trees and random forests applied to ternary variables: Three-way genitive variation in English Matthew Fahy, Jesse Egbert, Benedikt Szmrecsanyi and Douglas Biber; 8. Comparing Bayesian and frequentist models of language variation: The case of help + (to-)infinitive Natalia Levshina; 9. Comparing methods for the evaluation of clusters in multidimensional analyses: Concessive constructions in varieties of English Ole Schuetzler; Part IV. Applications of classification-based approaches; 10. Comparing corpus-driven and corpus-based approaches to diachronic variation: Grammatical changes in Late Modern and Present-Day English Gerold Schneider; 11. Comparing annotation types and n-gram sizes: A case study of the German modal particles ja and doch and their English reflexes Volker Gast; Index.