Corpora Galore : : Analyses and Techniques in Describing English / / edited by John M. Kirk.

• Superior document: Language and Computers ; 30
• TeilnehmendeR: Kirk, John M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2000.
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Language: English
• Series: Language and Computers ; 30.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

Table of Contents

Preface. Acknowledgements. -- I LEXICAL AND COLLOCATIONAL DESCRIPTION -- Susan BLACKWELL: Looking up look : Discourse Markers in the Bank of English -- Sebastian HOFFMANN and Hans-Martin LEHMANN: Collocational Evidence from the British National Corpus -- Graeme KENNEDY and Shunji YAMAZAKI: The Influence of Maori on the New Zealand English Lexicon -- Anthony McENERY, John Paul BAKER and Andrew HARDIE: Assessing Claims about Language Use with Corpus Data: Swearing and Abuse -- David C. MINUGH: You people use such weird expressions : The frequency of idioms in newspaper CDs as corpora -- Vincent B.Y. OOI: Asian or Western Realities? Collocations in Singaporean-Malaysian English -- II SYNTACTIC DESCRIPTION -- Jürgen GERNER: Singular and Plural Anaphors of Indefinite Personal Pronouns in Spoken British English -- Göran KJELLMER: Auxiliary Marginalities: The Case of Try -- Anna RAHMAN and Geoffrey SAMPSON: Extending Grammar Annotation to Spontaneous Speech -- Pasi TAPANAINEN and Timo JÄRVINEN: Syntactic Concordancers -- Atro VOUTILAINEN: Helsinki Taggers and Parsers for English -- Sean WALLIS, Bas AARTS and Gerald NELSON: Parsing in Reverse: Exploring ICE-GB with Fuzzy Tree Fragments and ICECUP.