The changing face of corpus linguistics / / edited by Antoinette Renouf and Andrew Kehoe.

This volume is witness to a spirited and fruitful period in the evolution of corpus linguistics. In twenty-two articles written by established corpus linguists, members of the ICAME (International Computer Archive of Modern and Mediaeval English) association, this new volume brings the reader up to...

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Superior document:Language and computers ; no. 55
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Year of Publication:2006
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Language and computers ; no. 55.
Physical Description:1 online resource (408 pages) :; illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Antoinette Renouf and Andrew Kehoe
  • The corpus-user’s chorus: (Based on The Major General's Song from Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance) / Antoinette Renouf and Andrew Kehoe
  • Introduction: The changing face of corpus linguistics / Antoinette Renouf and Andrew Kehoe
  • Oh Canada! Towards the Corpus of Early Ontario English / Stefan Dollinger
  • Favoring Americanisms? vs. before and in Early English in Australia: A corpus-based approach / Clemens Fritz
  • Computing the Lexicons of Early Modern English / Ian Lancashire
  • EFL dictionaries, grammars and language guides from 1700 to 1850: testing a new corpus on points of spokenness / Manfred Markus
  • The Old English Apollonius of Tyre in the light of the Old English Concordancer / Antonio Miranda García , Javier Calle Martín , David Moreno Olalla and Gustavo Muñoz González
  • Prediction with SHALL and WILL: a diachronic perspective / Maurizio Gotti
  • Circumstantial adverbials in discourse: a synchronic and a diachronic perspective / Anneli Meurman-Solin and Päivi Pahta
  • Changes in textual structures of book advertisements in the ZEN Corpus / Caren auf dem Keller
  • “Curtains like these are selling right in the city of Chicago for USD 1.50” – The mediopassive in American 20th-century advertising language / Marianne Hundt
  • Recent grammatical change in written English 1961-1992: some preliminary findings of a comparison of American with British English / Geoffrey Leech and Nicholas Smith
  • Social variation in the use of apology formulae in the British National Corpus / Mats Deutschmann
  • How recent is recent? On overcoming interpretational difficulties / Göran Kjellmer
  • Looking at looking: Functions and contexts of progressives in spoken English and ‘school’ English / Ute Römer
  • Ditransitives, the Given Before New principle, and textual retrievability: a corpus-based study using ICECUP / Gabriel Ozón
  • The Spanish pragmatic marker pues and its English equivalents / Anna-Brita Stenström
  • WebCorp: A tool for online linguistic information retrieval and analysis / Barry Morley
  • Diachronic linguistic analysis on the web with WebCorp / Andrew Kehoe
  • New ways of analysing ESL on the WWW with WebCorp and WebPhraseCount / Josef Schmied
  • I’m like, “Hey, it works!”: Using GlossaNet to find attestations of the quotative (be) like in English-language newspapers / Cédrick Fairon and John V. Singler
  • Corpus linguistics and English reference grammars / Joybrato Mukherjee
  • Tracking ongoing grammatical change and recent diversification in present-day standard English: the complementary role of small and large corpora / Christian Mair
  • but it will take time…points of view on a lexical grammar of English / Michaela Mahlberg
  • Corpus linguistics, grammar and theory: Report on a panel discussion at the 24th ICAME conference / Jan Aarts.