Corpus linguistics : : refinements and reassessments / / edited by Antoinette Renouf and Andrew Kehoe.

Throughout history, linguists and literary scholars have been impelled by curiosity about particular linguistic or literary phenomena to seek to observe them in action in original texts. The fruits of each earlier enquiry in turn nourish the desire to continue to acquire knowledge, through further o...

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Superior document:Language and computers ; no. 69
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Year of Publication:2009
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Language and computers ; no. 69.
Physical Description:1 online resource (471 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary material / Editors Corpus Linguistics
  • Introduction. Corpus Linguistics: Refinements and Reassessments / Antoinette Renouf and Andrew Kehoe
  • Corpus linguistics meets sociolinguistics: the role of corpus evidence in the study of sociolinguistic variation and change / Christian Mair
  • Creating corpora from spoken legacy materials: variation and change meet corpus linguistics / Joan C. Beal
  • Discourse linguistics meets corpus linguistics: theoretical and methodological issues in the troubled relationship / Tuija Virtanen
  • 'Tis well known to barbers and laundresses: Overt references to knowledge in English medical writing from the Middle Ages to the Present Day / Turo Hiltunen and Jukka Tyrkkö
  • Comparing type counts: The case of women, men and -ity in early English letters / Tanja Säily and Jukka Suomela
  • Does English have modal particles? / Karin Aijmer
  • A reassessment of the syntactic classification of pragmatic expressions: the positions of you know and I think with special attention to you know as a marker of metalinguistic awareness / Julie Van Bogaert
  • The functions of expletive interjections in spoken English / Magnus Ljung
  • Change and constancy in linguistic change: How grammatical usage in written English evolved in the period 1931-1991 / Geoffrey Leech and Nicholas Smith
  • Joseph Wright’s ‘English Dialect Dictionary’ in electronic form: A critical discussion of selected lexicographic parameters and query options / Alexander Onysko , Manfred Markus and Reinhard Heuberger
  • How representative are the ‘Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society’ of 17th-century scientific writing? / Lilo Moessner
  • A multi-dimensional analysis of a learner corpus / Bertus van Rooy and Lize Terblanche
  • Weaving web data into a diachronic corpus patchwork / Andrew Kehoe and Matt Gee
  • “To each reader his, their or her pronoun”. Prescribed, proscribed and disregarded uses of generic pronouns in English / Elisabetta Adami
  • The interpersonal function of going to in written American English / Anna Belladelli
  • Re-analysing the semi-modal ought to: an investigation of its use in the LOB, FLOB, Brown and Frown corpora / Marta Degani
  • On the use of split infinitives in English / Javier Calle-Martín and Antonio Miranda-García
  • Exploring change in the system of English predicate complementation, with evidence from corpora of recent English / Juhani Rudanko
  • Encoding of goal-directed motion vs resultative aspect in the COME + infinitive construction / Sara Gesuato
  • A corpus-based analysis of invariant tags in five varieties of English / Georgie Columbus
  • Discourse presentation in EFL textbooks: a BNC-based study / Christoph Rühlemann
  • Awful adjectives: a type of semantic change in present-day corpora / Göran Kjellmer
  • Global English – Global Corpora: Report on a panel discussion at the 28th ICAME conference / Marianne Hundt.