Corpus linguistics and variation in English : : theory and description / / edited by Joybrato Mukherjee and Magnus Huber.

The present volume includes a selection of 20 papers from the 31st Annual Conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME), held in Giessen (Germany) in May 2010. The conference topic was “Corpus linguistics and variation in English”. All the papers included in...

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Superior document:Language and computers ; no. 75
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Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Language and computers ; no. 75.
Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
Notes:Conference papers.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary material / Editors Corpus Linguistics and Variation in English
  • Introduction: Corpus linguistics and variation in English / Joybrato Mukherjee and Magnus Huber
  • Listenership in polylogic discourse / Gisle Andersen
  • and now I’m finally of the mind to say i hope the whole ship goes down...: Markers of subjectivity and evaluative phraseology in blogs / Marina Bondi and Corrado Seidenari
  • Using COCA to evaluate The Chicago Manual of Style’s usage prescriptions / Doris R. Dant
  • Corpus linguistics, theoretical linguistics, and cognitive/psycholinguistics: Towards more and more fruitful exchanges / Stefan Th. Gries
  • Syntactic variation and lexical preference in the dative-shift alternation / Hans Martin Lehmann and Gerold Schneider
  • The corpus stylistic analysis of fiction – or the fiction of corpus stylistics? / Michaela Mahlberg
  • How can Joseph Wright’s English Dialect Dictionary be used as a corpus? / Manfred Markus
  • Uncovering hidden constraints in micro-corpora of contact Englishes / Miriam Meyerhoff
  • Hidden structures in English corpora / Hagen Peukert
  • Automatically exploring lexical tendencies in English / Thomas Proisl
  • Exemplifying constructions with for example and for instance as markers: A historical account / Paula Rodríguez-Abruñeiras
  • Modal would as a pragmatic softener in ICE Ireland / Patricia Ronan
  • “Talked the council out of adopting any resolution”: On the transitive out of -ing construction in American English / Juhani Rudanko
  • Tracking the evolution of vernaculars: Corpus linguistics and earlier Southern US Englishes / Edgar W. Schneider
  • Methodological issues in a television news corpus: Discourse and annotation / Stefania Spina
  • Corpora and texts: Lexis and text structure / Michael Stubbs
  • On the persistence of ambiguous linguistic contexts over time: Implications for corpus research on micro-changes / Elizabeth Closs Traugott
  • Premodifying -ing participles in the parsed BNC / Turo Vartiainen and Jefrey Lijffijt.