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The changing face of corpus linguistics /

This volume is witness to a spirited and fruitful period in the evolution of corpus linguistics. In twenty-two articles written by established corpus linguists, members of the ICAME (International Computer Archive of Modern and Mediaeval English) association, this new volume brings the reader up to...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: International ICAME Conference Guernsey, Channel Islands
Otros Autores: Renouf, Antoinette, Kehoe, Andrew
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2006.
Colección:Language and computers ; no. 55.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; The corpus-user's chorus; Introduction; 1. Corpus creation; Oh Canada! Towards the Corpus of Early Ontario English; Favoring Americanisms? vs. before and in Early English in Australia: A corpus-based approach; Computing the Lexicons of Early Modern English; EFL dictionaries, grammars and language guides from1700 to 1850: testing a new corpus on points of spokenness; The Old English Apollonius of Tyre in the light of theOld English Concordancer; 2. Diachronic Corpus Study
  • from past to present
  • Prediction with SHALL and WILL: a diachronic perspectiveCircumstantial adverbials in discourse: a synchronic anda diachronic perspective; Changes in textual structures of book advertisementsin the ZEN Corpus; ""Curtains like these are selling right in the city of Chicagofor 1.50""
  • The mediopassive in American 20th-centuryadvertising language; Recent grammatical change in written English 1961-1992:some preliminary findings of a comparison of Americanwith British English; 3. Synchronic Corpus Study
  • present-day; Social variation in the use of apology formulae in the BritishNational Corpus
  • How recent is recent? On overcoming interpretational difficultiesLooking at looking: Functions and contexts of progressives inspoken English and 'school' English; Ditransitives, the Given Before New principle, and textualretrievability: a corpus-based study using ICECUP; The Spanish pragmatic marker pues and its English equivalents; 4. The Web as a Corpus; WebCorp: A tool for online linguistic information retrievaland analysis; Diachronic linguistic analysis on the web with WebCorp; New ways of analysing ESL on the WWW with WebCorpand WebPhraseCount
  • I'm like, ""Hey, it works!"": Using GlossaNet to find attestations of the quotative (be) like in English-language newspapers5. Corpus Linguistics and Grammatical Theory; Corpus linguistics and English reference grammars; Tracking ongoing grammatical change and recent diversificationin present-day standard English: the complementary role ofsmall and large corpora; but it will take time...points of view on a lexical grammar of English; 6. Grammar Discussion Panel; Corpus linguistics, grammar and theory: Report on a paneldiscussion at the 24th ICAME conference