Corpus Linguistics : Readings in a Widening Discipline.
Corpus Linguistics seeks to provide a comprehensive sampling of real-life usage in a given language, and to use these empirical data to test language hypotheses. Modern corpus linguistics began fifty years ago, but the subject has seen explosive growth since the early 1990s. These days corpora are b...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2005.
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Colección: | Open linguistics series Corpus linguistics
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Corpus Linguistics seeks to provide a comprehensive sampling of real-life usage in a given language, and to use these empirical data to test language hypotheses. Modern corpus linguistics began fifty years ago, but the subject has seen explosive growth since the early 1990s. These days corpora are being used to advance virtually every aspect of language study, from computer processing techniques such as machine translation, to literary stylistics, social aspects of language use, and improved language-teaching methods. Because corpus linguistics has grown fast from small beginnings, newcomers t. |
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Notas: | URL List. |
Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (541 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Sources and acknowledgements; Abbreviations used in this book; 1 Introduction; 2 From The Structure of English (1952); 3 A standard corpus of edited present-day American English (1965); 4 On the distribution of noun-phrase types in English clause-structure (1971); 5 Predicting text segmentation into tone units (1986); 6 Typicality and meaning potentials (1986); 7 Historical drift in three English genres (1987); 8 Corpus creation (1987); 9 Cleft and pseudo-cleft constructions in English spoken and written discourse (1987); 10 What is wrong with adding one? (1989). |
ISBN: | 9781441139375 1441139370 |