Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory : : Papers from the Twentieth International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora (ICAME 20) Freiburg im Breisgau 1999 / / edited by Christian Mair, Marianne Hundt.

• Superior document: Language and Computers ; 33
• TeilnehmendeR: Hundt, Marianne,; Mair, Christian,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2000.
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Language and Computers ; 33.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

From being the occupation of a marginal (and frequently marginalised) group of researchers, the linguistic analysis of machine-readable language corpora has moved to the mainstream of research on the English language. In this process an impressive body of results has accumulated which, over and above the intrinsic descriptive interest it holds for students of the English language, forces a major and systematic re-thinking of foundational issues in linguistic theory. Corpus linguistics and linguistic theory was accordingly chosen as the motto for the twentieth annual gathering of ICAME, the International Computer Archive of Modern/ Medieval English, which was hosted by the University of Freiburg (Germany) in 1999. The present volume, which presents selected papers from this conference, thus builds on previous successful work in the computer-aided description of English and at the same time represents an attempt at stock-taking and methodological reflection in a linguistic subdiscipline that has clearly come of age. Contributions cover all levels of linguistic description - from phonology/ prosody, through grammar and semantics to discourse-analytical issues such as genre or gender-specific linguistic usage. They are united by a desire to further the dialogue between the corpus-linguistic community and researchers working in other traditions. Thereby, the atmosphere ranges from undisguised skepticism (as expressed by Noam Chomsky in an interview which is part of the opening contribution by Bas Aarts) to empirically substantiated optimism (as, for example, in Bernadette Vine's significantly titled contribution Getting things done).

Table of Contents

MAIR/HUNDT: Introduction -- Bas AARTS : Corpus linguistics, Chomsky and Fuzzy Tree Fragments -- Bengt ALTENBERG and Karin AIJMER: The English-Swedish Parallel Corpus: a resource for contrastive research and translation studies -- Ylva BERGLUND: Gonna and going to in the spoken component of the British National Corpus -- Sylvie DE COCK: Repetitive phrasal chunkiness and advanced EFL speech and writing -- Pieter DE HAAN: Tagging non-native English with the TOSCA-ICLE tagger -- Inge DE MONNINK: Parsing a learner corpus? -- Jürgen ESSER: Corpus linguistics and the linguistic sign -- Maria ESTLING: Competition in the wastebasket: A study of constructions with all, both and half -- Roberta FACCHINETTI: Be able to in Present-day British English -- Angela HAHN, Sabine REICH and Josef SCHMIED : Aspect in the Chemnitz Internet Grammar -- Janet HOLMES: Ladies and gentlemen: corpus analysis and linguistic sexism -- Gunther KALTENBöCK: It -extraposition and non-extraposition in English discourse -- Thomas KOHNEN: Corpora and speech acts: The study of performatives -- Uta LENK: Stabilized expressions in spoken discourse: Worth our time? -- H. LINDQUIST, M. LEVIN: Apples and oranges: On comparing data from different corpora -- Manfred MARKUS: Wherefore therefore : Causal connectives in Middle English prose as opposed to Present Day English -- Oliver MASON: A developer's view of corpus linguistics: The CUE system -- Anneli MEURMAN-SOLIN: Prepositional ditransitive types of verb complementation -- Ilka MINDT: Prosodic cues at speaker turns -- Tore NILSSON: Noun Phrases in British Travel Texts -- Nelleke OOSTDIJK: Towards a model for the description of language use -- Minna PALANDER-COLLIN: The language of husbands and wives in seventeenth-century correspondence -- Pam PETERS: Paradigm Split -- Norbert SCHLÜTER: The present perfect in British and American English: selected results of an empirical analysis -- Kristina SCHNEIDER: Popular and Quality Papers in the Rostock Historical Newspaper Corpus -- Paul SKANDERA: Research into idioms and the International Corpus of English -- Mikael SVENSSON: Sentence openings and textual progression in English and Swedish -- Bernadette VINE: Getting things done: Some practical issues in a functional investigation of directives in spoken extracts from the New Zealand and British components of the International Corpus of English -- Terry WALKER: The choice of second person singular pronouns in authentic and constructed dialogue in late sixteenth century English -- Keith WILLIAMSON: Lexico-grammatical Tags and the Phonetic and Syntactic Analysis of Medieval Texts.