Extending the scope of corpus-based research : new applications, new challenges / / edited by Sylviane Granger, Stephanie Petch-Tyson.

• Superior document: Language and computers ; no. 48
• Author: International Computer Archive of Modern English.
• TeilnehmendeR: Granger, Sylviane, 1951-; Petch-Tyson, Stephanie.; International Computer Archive of Modern English.
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Series: Language and computers ; no. 48.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (265 p.)
• Notes: Papers from a conference sponsored by ICAME, 2001.

Extending the scope of corpus-based research: new applications, new challenges is a collection of articles which highlights some of the challenges facing English Corpus Linguistics at the beginning of the 21st century and shows how these challenges are being addressed by researchers. In sections on corpus methodology, language description and foreign language learning and teaching, researchers address a broad range of topics from methodological standardization, experimental research design, tagging and parsing corpora and the value of enriched corpus annotation to web-based research, tools for analysing language on the web and language learning via an Internet Grammar. There is a broad spectrum of research encompassing grammatical and lexical analyses of different varieties of early and Modern English, bilingual code switching, learner English and theoretical and practical approaches to the 0-d spoken medium. As such, the collection offers a global, up-to-date appreciation of theoretical and practical issues which will be of value to researchers in many areas of English Linguistics.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Sylviane Granger and Stephanie Petch-Tyson -- List of Contributors / Sylviane Granger and Stephanie Petch-Tyson -- Preface / Sylviane Granger and Stephanie Petch-Tyson -- Using the MF/MD method for automatic text classification / Inge de Mönnink , Niek Brom and Nelleke Oostdijk -- Scientific experiments in parsed corpora: an overview / Sean Wallis -- WebCorp: providing a renewable data source for corpus linguists / Antoinette Renouf -- Normalization and disfluencies in spoken language data / Nelleke Oostdijk -- Textual structure and segmentation in online documents / Pam Peters and Adam Smith -- Shall and will as first person future auxiliaries in a corpus of Early Modern English texts / Maurizio Gotti -- The role of gender in the use of MUST in Early Modern English / Arja Nurmi -- From corpus data to a theory of talk units in spoken English / Joybrato Mukherjee -- The BNC and the OED. Examining the usefulness of two different types of data in an analysis of the morpheme eco / Bernhard Kettemann , Martina König and Georg Marko -- Lexical gaps / Göran Kjellmer -- The use of native lexical items in English texts as a codeswitching strategy / Hajar Abdul Rahim and Harshita Aini Haroon -- The structure of children’s writing: moving from spoken to adult written norms / Geoffrey Sampson -- On clefts and information structure in Swedish EFL writing / Mia Boström Aronsson -- Contrasting learner corpora: the use of modal and reporting verbs in the expression of writer stance / JoAnne Neff , Emma Dafouz , Honesto Herrera , Francisco Martínez , Juan Pedro Rica , Mercedes Díez , Rosa Prieto and Carmen Sancho -- Learning English prepositions in the Chemnitz Internet Grammar / Josef Schmied -- Integrating networked learner oral corpora into foreign language instruction / Pascual Pérez-Paredes.