Corpus Linguistics and the Web

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-90-420-2128-0
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 59, 306 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 589 g

Reihe: Language and Computers

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 they probe into methods for culling data from the web. The book also offers a wide range of case studies, covering morphology, syntax, lexis, as well as synchronic and diachronic variation in English. These case studies make use of the two approaches to the www in corpus linguistics – web-as-corpus and web-for-corpus-building. The case studies demonstrate that web data can provide useful additional evidence for a broad range of research questions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Hundt, Marianne

Nesselhauf, Nadja

Biewer, Carolin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Computerlinguistik, Korpuslinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Marianne HUNDT, Nadja NESSELHAUF and Carolin BIEWER: Corpus linguistics and the web
Accessing the web as corpus
Anke LÜDELING, Stefan EVERT and Marco BARONI: Using web data for linguistic purposes
William H. FLETCHER: Concordancing the web: promise and problems, tools and techniques
Antoinette RENOUF, Andrew KEHOE and Jayeeta BANERJEE: WebCorp: an integrated system for web text search
Compiling corpora from the internet
Sebastian HOFFMANN: From webpage to mega-corpus: the CNN transcripts
Claudia CLARIDGE: Constructing a corpus from the web: message boards
Douglas BIBER and Jerry KURJIAN: Towards a taxonomy of web registers and text types: a multidimensional analysis
Critical voices
Geoffrey LEECH: New resources, or just better old ones? The Holy Grail of representativeness
Graeme KENNEDY: An under-exploited resource: using the BNC for exploring the nature of language learning
Language variation and change
Anette ROSENBACH: Exploring constructions on the web: a case study
Günter ROHDENBURG: Determinants of grammatical variation in English and the formation / confirmation of linguistic hypotheses by means of internet data
Britta MONDORF: Recalcitrant problems of comparative alternation and new insights emerging from internet data
Christian MAIR: Change and variation in present-day English: integrating the analysis of closed corpora and web-based monitoring
Marianne HUNDT and Carolin BIEWER: The dynamics of inner and outer circle varieties in the South Pacific and East Asia
Lieselotte ANDERWALD: ‘He rung the bell’ and ‘she drunk ale’ – non-standard past tense forms in traditional British dialects and on the internet
Nadja NESSELHAUF: Diachronic analysis with the internet? Will and shall in ARCHER and in a corpus of e-texts from the web