New Directions in English Language Corpora : : Methodology, Results, Software Developments / / ed. by Gerhard Leitner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Barnbrook, Geoff,; Belmore, Nancy,; Burnard, Lou,; Clear, Jeremy,; Fligelstone, Steve,; Geisler, Christer,; Hasselgård, Hilde,; Kirk, John M.,; Kjellmer, Göran,; Knowles, Gerry,; Leitner, Gerhard,; Mair, Christian,; McEnery, Anthony,; Meijs, Willem,; Noël, Jacques,; Renouf, Antoinette,; Schneider, Edgar W.,; Shastri, S. V.,; Sutton, Stephen,; Wikberg, Kay,; de Haan, Pieter,
• HerausgeberIn: Leitner, Gerhard,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] , 9
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.) :; Num. figs.

Table of Contents

i-iv -- Preface -- Contents -- Part I. Corpus design and text encoding -- The optimum corpus sample size? -- Corpus sampling -- International Corpus of English: Corpus design – problems and suggested solutions -- The Northern Ireland Transcribed Corpus of Speech -- Problems in the compilation of a corpus of standard Caribbean English: A pilot study -- The Text Encoding Initiative: A progress report -- Part II. Automated syntactic and semantic text analysis -- Pinpointing problematic tagging decisions -- Inferences and lexical relations -- Developing a scheme for annotating text to show anaphoric relations -- Information retrieval and corpora -- Part III. Corpora in language description -- Relative infinitives in spoken and written English -- Who(m)? Case marking of wh-pronouns in written British and American English -- Discourse category and text type classification: Procedural discourse in the Brown and the LOB corpora -- Opaque and transparent features of Indian English -- Computer analysis of spelling variants in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales -- Pitch contours and tones in the Lancaster/IBM spoken English corpus -- What do you think of that: A pilot study of the phraseology of the core words of English -- Sequences of spatial and temporal adverbials in spoken and written English -- Grammatical or nativelike? -- Collocation and bilingual text -- Key Word Index -- 369-370