English Corpus Linguistics: Studies in Honour of Jan SvartvikKarin Aijmer, Bengt Altenberg A representative sample of language, compiled for the purpose of linguistic analysis, is known as a corpus. This book provides a survey of recent developments in English corpus linguistics, emphasizing the linguistic rather than the computational or technical maters. |
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The state of the art in corpus linguistics | 8 |
Corpus studies and probabilistic grammar | 30 |
Intuitionbased and observationbased grammars | 44 |
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Aarts American English analysis annotation apposition AusE Australian Australian English backchannels Biber British English Brown Corpus cent classes collocations computerized corpora constructions context conversation corpus data corpus linguistics Corpus of English Corpus of Spoken corpus studies corpus-based CSAE Devon dialect discourse discussion distinction distribution epistemic example expletives Finegan formal grammar framework frequency function genres go-on grammar Graphology Greenbaum Helsinki Corpus Horv ICAME instances interactive intonation unit language lexical linguistic features LOB Corpus London-Lund Corpus material meaning million words Mod3 modals noun phrase object clause occur periphrastic possible present probabilities pronouns question Quirk Randolph Quirk sample semantic sentences Sinclair speakers speech spoken English structure stylistic Survey of English Svartvik syntactic syntax Table tagging Text Encoding Initiative text types Total transcription variation variety verb West Somerset writing written y\es yeah zero that zero