English Corpus Linguistics

1. Auflage 1991
ISBN: 978-0-582-05930-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 350 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 444 g

This collection of articles form a tribute to Jan Svartvik and his pioneering work in the field. Covers corpus studies, problematic grammar, institution-based and observation-based grammars and the design and development of spoken and written text corpora in different varieties of English.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aijmer, Karin

Altenberg, Bengt

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART 1: Goals and methods: the state of the art in corpus linguistics, Geoffrey Leech
1.2 Corpus studies and probabilistic grammar, M.A.K.Halliday
1.3 Intuition-based and observation-based grammars, Jan Aarts

PART 2 Corpus design and development: toward a new corpus of spoken American English,

Wallace L.Chafe, et al
2.2 The development of the international corpus of English

PART 3 Exploration of corpora: between and through - the company they keep and the functions they serve, Graeme Kennedy
3.2 A mint of phrases, Goran Kjellmer; collocational frameworks in English, Antoinette Renouf and John McH.Sinclair
3.3 The modals of obligation and necessity in Australian English, Peter Collins
3.4 A corpus-based study of apposition in English, Charles F.Meyer
3.5 Syntactic evidence for semantic distinctions in English, Dieter Mindt; on having a look in a corpus, Gabriele Stein and Randolph Quirk
3.6 On the exploitation of computerized corpora in variation studies, Douglas Biber and Edward Finegan
3.7 Stylistic profiling, David Crystal
3.8 Expletives in the London-Lund corpus,Anna-Brita Stenstrom
3.9 Conversational style in British and American English - the case of backchannels, Gunnel Tottie
3.10 On the history of that/zero as object clause links in English, Matti Rissanen
3.11 A point of verb syntax in South-western British English - an analysis of a dialect continuum, Ossi Ihalainen

PART 4 Prospects for the future: times change, and so do corpora, Stig Johansson

Appendix: List of computer corpora.

Über Autor(innen)

Karin Aijmer, Bengt Altenberg