Corpus linguistics 25 years on / / edited by Roberta Facchinetti.

• Superior document: Language and computers : studies in practical linguistics ; no 62
• TeilnehmendeR: Facchinetti, Roberta, 1967-
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Language and computers ; no. 62.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (392 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This volume offers a state-of-the-art picture of work undertaken in the field of computer-aided corpus linguistics. While the focus is on English, central insights can be generalised to other languages, as well. As a work intended to mark the Silver Jubilee of ICAME, the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English , the book combines surveys of the discipline by some of its major pioneers, including founders of ICAME itself, with cutting-edge work by younger scholars. It is divided into three sections: “Overviewing years of corpus linguistic studies”, “Descriptive studies in English syntax and semantics”, and “Second Language Acquisition, parallel corpora and specialist corpora”. The book bears witness to the impressive advances that have characterised the development of corpus linguistics over the past few decades – from terminological issues to practical applications, from theoretical and descriptive research to applied approaches, from monolingual to multilingual and specialist corpora, from corpus design to corpus exploitation tools.

Table of Contents

Preliminary material / Editors Corpus Linguistics 25 Years on -- Introduction / Roberta Facchinetti -- Corpus linguistics 25+ years on / Jan Svartvik -- Corpus development 25 years on: from super-corpus to cyber-corpus / Antoinette Renouf -- Seeing through multilingual corpora / Stig Johansson -- Corpora and spoken discourse / Anne Wichmann -- An example of frequent English phraseology: distributions, structures and functions / Michael Stubbs -- The semantic properties of going to: distribution patterns in four subcorpora of the British National Corpus / Ylva Berglund and Christopher Williams -- The superlative in spoken English / Claudia Claridge -- Semantically-based queries with a joint BNC/WordNet database / Mark Davies -- Size matters – or thus can meaningful structures be revealed in large corpora / Solveig Granath -- Inversion in modern written English: syntactic complexity, information status and the creative writer / Rolf Kreyer -- The filling in the sandwich: internal modification of idioms / David C. Minugh -- NP-internal functions and extended uses of the ‘type’ nouns kind, sort, and type: towards a comprehensive, corpus-based description / Liesbeth De Smedt , Lieselotte Brems and Kristin Davidse -- Student writing of research articles in a foreign language: metacognition and corpora / Francesca Bianchi and Roberto Pazzaglia -- The structure of corpora in SLA research / Ron Cowan and Michael Leeser -- The path from learner corpus analysis to language pedagogy: some neglected issues / Nadja Nesselhauf -- Exploiting the Corpus of East-African English / Josef Schmied -- Transitive verb plus reflexive pronoun/personal pronoun patterns in English and Japanese: using a Japanese-English parallel corpus / Makoto Shimizu and Masaki Murata -- The retrieval of false anglicisms in newspaper texts / Cristiano Furiassi and Knut Hofland -- Lexical semantics for software requirements engineering – a corpus-based approach / Kerstin Lindmark , Johan Natt och Dag and Caroline Willners.