Synchronic Corpus Linguistics

Papers from the sixteenth International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora (ICAME 16)
Erscheinungsjahr 1996
ISBN: 978-90-420-0019-3
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 16, 289 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm

Reihe: Language and Computers

Synchronic corpus linguistics contains select papers from the sixteenth International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora (ICAME 16). The papers reflect the state of the art in the design, analysis, and annotation of corpora. Corpora new and old facilitate the description of single registers of English (e.g., London teenage English, business English) and of specific grammatical topics across registers (e.g., the grammatical flexibility of idioms), including variation studies (e.g., popular vs. technical registers of English). Other corpora permit the comparison of English to other languages (Norwegian, German, Swedish); of L1 English to L2 English; and of English as an original language to English in translation. A number of these papers emphasize pragmatics: indeed, among the papers on spoken English is an assessment of corpora annotated for discourse analysis. Other papers describe different aspects of the automatic analysis of text. Two papers describe semantic analysis of large text corpora composed of news/business text. Automatic grammatical analysis is the subject of other papers: two evaluate existing automatic parsers and wordclass taggers, while two describe how annotated corpora are being used to develop two new and innovative automatic parsers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Percy, Carol E.

Meyer, Charles F.

Lancashire, Ian

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface. I CORPUS DEVELOPMENT AND ANALYSIS: PARALLEL CORPORA. Stig JOHANSSON and Jarle EBELING: Exploring the English-Norwegian Parallel Corpus. Kay WIKBERG: Questions in English and Norwegian: Evidence from the English-Norwegian Parallel Corpus. Mats JOHANSSON: Fronting in English and Swedish: A text-based contrastive analysis. Josef SCHMIED and Hildegard SCHÄFFLER: Approaching translationese through parallel and translation corpora. II CORPUS DEVELOPMENT AND ANALYSIS: CORPORA NEW AND OLD. Bas AARTS: The rhetorical adverb simply in present-day British English. Henk BARKEMA: The effect of inherent and contextual factors on the grammatical flexibility of idioms. Sabine BERGLER and Sonja KNOLL: Coreference patterns in the Wall Street Journal. Mats EEG-OLOFSSON and Bengt ALTENBERG: Recurrent word combinations in the London-Lund Corpus: Coverage and use for word-class tagging. Magnus LJUNG: Non-finite and verbless adverbial clauses in different genres of English. John MILTON and Robert FREEMAN: Lexical variation in the writing of Chinese learners of English. Dieter MINDT: A corpus-based empirical grammar of English modal verbs. Inge de MÖNNINK: A first approach to the mobility of noun phrase constituents. Juhani NORRI and MERJA KYTÖ: A corpus of English for Specific Purposes: Work in progress at the University of Tampere. Antoinette RENOUF: The ACRONYM project: Discovering the textual thesaurus. Anna-Brita STENSTRÖM and Gisle ANDERSEN: More trends in teenage talk: A corpus-based investigation of the discourse items cos and innit. III CORPUS ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATION: PARSING, TAGGING, DISCOURSE ANALYSIS. Alex CHENGYU FANG: Automatically generalising a wide-coverage formal grammar. A.M. WALLINGTON, M.D. DENNIS, and G.R. SAMPSON: A full annealing parser with a self-generated language model. Tim WILLIS: Analysing the Lancaster/IBM Spoken English Corpus (SEC) using the TOSCA Analysis System (for ICE): Some impressions from a user. Graeme KENNEDY: Over once lightly. John M. KIRK: Corpora and discourse analysis: Transcription, annotation, and presentation. Index.