Corpus-linguistic applications : : current studies, new directions / / edition by Stefan Th. Gries, Stefanie Wulff, Mark Davies.

• Superior document: Language and computers ; no. 71
• TeilnehmendeR: Gries, Stefan Thomas, 1970-; Wulff, Stefanie.; Davies, Mark.
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, New York : : Rodopi.; c2010.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Language and Computers 71.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (260 pages).
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

This volume provides an overview of four currently booming areas in the discipline of corpus linguistics. The first section is concerned with studies of the history and development of morphological and syntactic phenomena in English, Spanish, and Mandarin Chinese. The second section contains case studies investigating the functions and contexts of use of different morphological and syntactic forms in English, Spanish, Russian, and Mandarin Chinese. The third section contains studies in the field of genre and register from settings as diverse as health, call center, academic, and legal discourse. The final section features papers refining existing, and exploring new, corpus-linguistic methods: dispersions, text mining, corpus similarity, as well as the development of extraction patterns and the evaluation of tagging methods.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Stefan Th. Gries , Stefanie Wulff and Mark Davies -- Introduction / Stefan Th. Gries , Stefanie Wulff and Mark Davies -- Online databases and language change: the case of Spanish dizque / Viola G. Miglio -- Toward a comparison of unsupervised diachronic morphological profiles / Alfonso Medina Urrea -- Change and variation in complement selection: a case study from recent English, with evidence from large corpora / Juhani Rudanko -- Journalistic corpus similarity over time / Cristina Mota -- “Ah lovely stuff, eh?”—invariant tag meanings and usage across three varieties of English / Georgie Columbus -- Good nouns, bad nouns: what the corpus says and what native speakers think / Philip Dilts -- Subject omission in Russian: a study of the Russian National Corpus / Tatiana Zdorenko -- Linguistic realizations of rhetorical structure: a corpus-based study of research article abstracts and introductions in applied linguistics and educational technology / Phuong Dzung Pho -- Lexical bundle distribution in university classroom talk / Eniko Csomay and Viviana Cortes -- Suggestions and recommendations in academic speech / Luciana Diniz -- Building a forensic corpus to test language-based indicators of deception / Eileen Fitzpatrick and Joan Bachenko -- Dispersions and adjusted frequencies in corpora: further explorations / Stefan Th. Gries -- Probabilistic tagging of minority language data: a case study using Qtag / Christopher Cox -- Exploring a corpus of scientific texts using data mining / Elke Teich -- Automated learning of appraisal extraction patterns / Kenneth Bloom and Shlomo Argamon.