English corpora under Japanese eyes / / edited by Junsaku Nakamura, Nagayuki Inoue and Tomoji Tabata.

• Superior document: Language and computers : studies in practical linguistics ; Number 51
• Author: Japan Association for English Corpus Studies.
• TeilnehmendeR: Nakamura, Junsaku, 1944-; Inoue, Nagayuki,; Tabata, Tomoji, 1965-; Japan Association for English Corpus Studies.
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, New York, New York : : Rodopi,, [2004]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Series: Language and computers ; Number 51.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 249 pages) :; illustrations.
• Notes: Published to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Japan Association for English Corpus Studies.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Corpus linguistics—past, present, future: A view from Oslo /; What is to be done about it? A Parallel Corpus Study of ‘Copula and Infinitive’ Constructions in English and French /; Definite Notional Subject in Existential There Constructions: A Quantitative Study /; Patterns with Transitive Verb and Reflexive in English and their Counterparts in Japanese: A Bilingual Pattern Grammar Approach /; Magnate and Tycoon: A Case of Rivalry between Existing Vocabulary and Newer Loanwords as Seen in OED2 and BNC /; A Corpus-Driven Identification of Distinctive Words: ‘Tabloid Adjectives’ and ‘Broadsheet Adjectives’ in the Bank of English /; A Project for a Comprehensive Collation of the Hengwrt and Ellesmere Manuscripts of The Canterbury Tales: The General Prologue /; On Verb Movement in Old English Subordinate Clauses /; Syntactic Chronology: Dating Text in the History of English /; A Corpus-Based Approach to Basic Colour Terms in the Novels of D.H. Lawrence /; The Use of Past Tense Forms by Japanese Learners of English /; Measuring Vocabulary Levels of English Textbooks and Tests Using a BNC Lemmatised High Frequency Word List /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
• ISBN: 9004333754
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Junsaku Nakamura, Nagayuki Inoue and Tomoji Tabata.

English Corpora under Japanese Eyes is a fine collection of papers written in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the Japan Association of English Corpus Studies (JAECS). Beginning with the overview of the field by Stig Johansson, an honorary member of the JAECS, the present volume shows the state-of-art in English corpus studies in Japan and demonstrates the creative uses of corpora in a wide range of research topics from studies drawing on large-scale general corpora, such as British National Corpus and the Bank of English, to studies based on more specific, historical, literary, learner and parallel corpora. The papers incorporated in this anthology are grouped into five sections: 1) Overview of corpus-based studies, 2) Corpus-based studies of contemporary English, 3) Historical and diachronic studies of English, 4) Corpus-based studies in English literature, 5) Corpus and English language teaching. This volume will inspire still further corpus exploitation in the broader field of the humanities.