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Corpus linguistics and the web /

Using the Web as Corpus is one of the recent challenges for corpus linguistics. This volume presents a current state-of-the-arts discussion of the topic. The articles address practical problems such as suitable linguistic search tools for accessing the www, the question of register variation, or the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores Corporativos: Internationales Wissenschaftsforum, Fritz Thyssen-Stiftung, Universität Heidelberg, Stiftung Universität Heidelberg
Otros Autores: Hundt, Marianne, Nesselhauf, Nadja, Biewer, Carolin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2007.
Colección:Language and computers ; no. 59.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Corpus linguistics and the web; Accessing the web as corpus; Using web data for linguistic purposes; Concordancing the web: promise and problems, tools and techniques; WebCorp: an integrated system for web text search; Compiling corpora from the internet; From webpage to mega-corpus: the CNN transcripts; Constructing a corpus from the web: message boards; Towards a taxonomy of web registers and text types: a multidimensional analysis; Critical voices; New resources, or just better old ones? The Holy Grail of representativeness.
  • An under-exploited resource: using the BNC for exploring the nature of language learningLanguage variation and change; Exploring constructions on the web: a case study; Determinants of grammatical variation in English and the formation/confirmation of linguistic hypotheses by means of internet data; Recalcitrant problems of comparative alternation and new insights emerging from internet data; Change and variation in present-day English: integrating the analysis of closed corpora and web-based monitoring; The dynamics of inner and outer circle varieties in the South Pacific and East Asia.
  • 'He rung the bell' and 'she drunk ale'
  • non-standard past tense forms in traditional British dialects and on the internetDiachronic analysis with the internet? Will and shall in ARCHER and in a corpus of e-texts from the web.