English corpora under Japanese eyes / / 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 st...

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Superior document:Language and computers : studies in practical linguistics ; Number 51
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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.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Junsaku Nakamura , Nagayuki Inoue and Tomoji Tabata
  • Corpus linguistics—past, present, future: A view from Oslo / Stig Johansson
  • What is to be done about it? A Parallel Corpus Study of ‘Copula and Infinitive’ Constructions in English and French / Uchida Mitsumi and Yanagi Tomohiro
  • Definite Notional Subject in Existential There Constructions: A Quantitative Study / Mayumi Nishibu
  • Patterns with Transitive Verb and Reflexive in English and their Counterparts in Japanese: A Bilingual Pattern Grammar Approach / Makoto Shimizu and Masaki Murata
  • Magnate and Tycoon: A Case of Rivalry between Existing Vocabulary and Newer Loanwords as Seen in OED2 and BNC / Makimi Kimura
  • A Corpus-Driven Identification of Distinctive Words: ‘Tabloid Adjectives’ and ‘Broadsheet Adjectives’ in the Bank of English / Satoko Takami
  • A Project for a Comprehensive Collation of the Hengwrt and Ellesmere Manuscripts of The Canterbury Tales: The General Prologue / Yoshiyuki Nakao , Akiyuki Jimura and Masatsugu Matsuo
  • On Verb Movement in Old English Subordinate Clauses / Ohkado Masayuki
  • Syntactic Chronology: Dating Text in the History of English / Satoru Tsukamoto
  • A Corpus-Based Approach to Basic Colour Terms in the Novels of D.H. Lawrence / Shin’ichiro Ishikawa
  • The Use of Past Tense Forms by Japanese Learners of English / Tomoko Kaneko
  • Measuring Vocabulary Levels of English Textbooks and Tests Using a BNC Lemmatised High Frequency Word List / Kiyomi Chujo.