English corpus linguistics : : looking back, moving forward : papers from the 30th International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora (ICAME 30), Lancaster, UK, 27-31 May 2009 / / edited by Sebastian Hoffmann, Paul Rayson and Geoffrey Leech.
This book showcases sixteen papers from the landmark 30th conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME) held at Lancaster University in May 2009. The theme of the book ‘looking back, moving forward’ follows that of the conference where participants reflected...
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| Superior document: | Language and computers : studies in practical linguistics ; no. 74 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Language and computers ;
no. 74. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (266 p.) |
| Notes: | Held in Lancaster, UK, 27-31 May 2009. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary material / Editors English Corpus Linguistics: Looking back, Moving forward
- Introduction: English corpus linguistics – looking back, moving forward / Sebastian Hoffmann , Paul Rayson and Geoffrey Leech
- The grammaticalization and pragmaticalization of cleft constructions in Present-Day English / Marcus Callies
- Interpersonal themes and author stance in student writing / Signe Oksefjell Ebeling and Paul Wickens
- Through seen through the looking glass of translation equivalence: a proposed method for determining closeness of word senses / Thomas Egan
- Semantic patterns of HAVE been to V: Corpus data and elicited data / Sara Gesuato
- Differential change in British and American English: Comparing pre- and post-war data / Marianne Hundt and Stefanie Dose
- “Love is like a stove – it burns you when it’s hot”: A corpus-linguistic view on the (non-)creative use of love-related metaphors in pop songs / Rolf Kreyer
- Scare quotes in Norwegian L2 English and British English / Susan Nacey
- NEED TO and the domain of Business in spoken British English / Soili Nokkonen
- Perfect problems: A corpus-based comparison of the perfect in Bulgarian and German EFL writing / Svetla Rogatcheva
- Thematic progression in learner language / Sylvi Rørvik
- The transitive into -ing construction in early twentieth-century American English, with evidence from the TIME Corpus / Juhani Rudanko
- The secret life of the negative: An investigation of polarity and modality in a corpus of newsgroup texts / Anke Schulz and Elke Teich
- Variation in the progressive in World Englishes: Some preliminary findings / Paula Suoniemi
- Telicity and the premodifying ing-participle in English / Turo Vartiainen
- Corpus, coursebook and psycholinguistic evidence on use and concept: The case of category ambiguity / Elaine W. Vine and Paul Warren
- Highly polysemous verbs in New Englishes: A corpus-based pilot study of Sri Lankan and Indian English / Janina Werner and Joybrato Mukherjee.