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1 online resource (385 pages) : illustrations |
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Language and computers ; no. 62 |
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Language and computers ; no. 62.
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Introduction; 1. Overviewing 25 years of corpus linguistic studies; Corpus linguistics 25+ years on; Corpus development 25 years on: from super-corpus to cyber-corpus; Seeing through multilingual corpora; Corpora and spoken discourse; 2. Descriptive studies in English syntax and semantics; An example of frequent English phraseology: distributions, structures and functions; The semantic properties of going to: distribution patterns infour subcorpora of the British National Corpus; The superlative in spoken English; Semantically-based queries with a joint BNC/WordNet database |
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Size matters -- or thus can meaningful structures be revealed in large corporaInversion in modern written English: syntactic complexity, information status and the creative writer; The filling in the sandwich: internal modification of idioms; NP-internal functions and extended uses of the 'type' nouns kind, sort, and type: towards a comprehensive, corpus-based description; 3. Second Language Acquisition, parallel corpora and specialist corpora; Student writing of research articles in a foreign language: metacognition and corpora; The structure of corpora in SLA research |
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The path from learner corpus analysis to language pedagogy: some neglected issuesExploiting the Corpus of East-African English; Transitive verb plus reflexive pronoun/personal pronoun patterns in English and Japanese: using a Japanese-English parallel corpus; The retrieval of false anglicisms in newspaper texts; Lexical semantics for software requirements engineering -- a corpus-based approach |
| Summary |
This volume offers a state-of-the-art picture of work undertaken in the field of computer-aided corpus linguistics. While the focus is on English, central insights can be generalised to other languages, as well. As a work intended to mark the Silver Jubilee of ICAME, the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English, the book combines surveys of the discipline by some of its major pioneers, including founders of ICAME itself, with cutting-edge work by younger scholars. It is divided into three sections: "Overviewing years of corpus linguistic studies", "Descriptive studies in |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Computational linguistics -- Methodology.
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Discourse analysis -- Data processing
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Historical & Comparative.
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Computational linguistics -- Methodology
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Discourse analysis -- Data processing
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Facchinetti, Roberta, 1967-
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| ISBN |
9781435600713 |
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1435600711 |
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9789401204347 |
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9401204349 |
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