Extending the scope of corpus-based research

New applications, new challenges
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-90-420-1136-6
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 48, 261 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm

Reihe: Language and Computers

Extending the scope of corpus-based research: new applications, new challenges is a collection of articles which highlights some of the challenges facing English Corpus Linguistics at the beginning of the 21st century and shows how these challenges are being addressed by researchers. In sections on corpus methodology, language description and foreign language learning and teaching, researchers address a broad range of topics from methodological standardization, experimental research design, tagging and parsing corpora and the value of enriched corpus annotation to web-based research, tools for analysing language on the web and language learning via an Internet Grammar. There is a broad spectrum of research encompassing grammatical and lexical analyses of different varieties of early and Modern English, bilingual code switching, learner English and theoretical and practical approaches to the 0-d spoken medium. As such, the collection offers a global, up-to-date appreciation of theoretical and practical issues which will be of value to researchers in many areas of English Linguistics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Granger, Sylviane

Petch-Tyson, Stephanie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Textlinguistik, Diskursanalyse, Stilistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of contributors
Preface
I. Corpora and methodology
Inge de MÖNNINK, Niek BROM & Nelleke OOSTDIJK: Using the MF/MD method for automatic text classification
Sean WALLIS: Scientific experiments in parsed corpora: an overview
Antoinette RENOUF: WebCorp: providing a renewable data source for corpus linguists
Nelleke OOSTDIJK: Normalization and disfluencies in spoken language data
Pam PETERS & Adam SMITH: Textual structure and segmentation in online documents
II. Corpora in language description
Maurizio GOTTI: Shall and will as first person future auxiliaries in a corpus of Early Modern English texts
Arja NURMI: The role of gender in the use of MUST in Early Modern English
Joybrato MUKHERJEE: From corpus data to a theory of talk units in spoken English
Bernhard KETTEMANN, Martina KÖNIG & Georg MARKO: The BNC and the OED. Examining the usefulness of two different types of data in an analysis of the morpheme eco
Göran KJELLMER: Lexical gaps
Hajar Abdul RAHIM & Harshita Aini HAROON: The use of native lexical items in English texts as a codeswitching strategy
Geoffrey SAMPSON: The structure of children’s writing: moving from spoken to adult written norms
III. Corpora in foreign language learning and teaching
Mia BOSTRÖM ARONSSON: On clefts and information structure in Swedish EFL writing
JoAnne NEFF, Emma DAFOUZ, Honesto HERRERA, Francisco MARTINEZ, Juan Pedro RICA, Mercedes DIEZ, Rosa PRIETO & Carmen SANCHO: Contrasting learner corpora: the use of modal and reporting verbs in the expression of writer stance
Josef SCHMIED: Learning English prepositions in the Chemnitz Internet Grammar
Pascual PÉREZ-PAREDES: Integrating networked learner oral corpora into foreign language instruction