Corpus-linguistic applications: Current studies, new directions. (Language & Computers)

✍ Scribed by Stefan Th Gries, Stefanie Wulff, Mark Davies

• Publisher: Rodopi
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 267
• Series: Language and Computers
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume provides an overview of four currently booming areas in the discipline of corpus linguistics. The first section is concerned with studies of the history and development of morphological and syntactic phenomena in English, Spanish, and Mandarin Chinese. The second section contains case studies investigating the functions and contexts of use of different morphological and syntactic forms in English, Spanish, Russian, and Mandarin Chinese. The third section contains studies in the field of genre and register from settings as diverse as health, call center, academic, and legal discourse. The final section features papers refining existing, and exploring new, corpus-linguistic methods: dispersions, text mining, corpus similarity, as well as the development of extraction patterns and the evaluation of tagging methods.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 8
Online databases and language change: the case of Spanish dizque......Page 14
Toward a comparison of unsupervised diachronic morphological profiles......Page 36
Change and variation in complement selection: a case study from recent English, with evidence from large corpora......Page 54
Journalistic corpus similarity over time......Page 74
"Ah lovely stuff, eh?"—invariant tag meanings and usage across three varieties of English......Page 92
Good nouns, bad nouns: what the corpus says and what native speakers think......Page 110
Subject omission in Russian: a study of the Russian National Corpus......Page 126
Linguistic realizations of rhetorical structure: a corpus-based study of research article abstracts and introductions in applied linguistics and educational technology......Page 142
Lexical bundle distribution in university classroom talk......Page 160
Suggestions and recommendations in academic speech......Page 176
Building a forensic corpus to test language-based indicators of deception......Page 190
Dispersions and adjusted frequencies in corpora: further explorations......Page 204
Probabilistic tagging of minority language data: a case study using Qtag......Page 220
Exploring a corpus of scientific texts using data mining......Page 240
Automated learning of appraisal extraction patterns......Page 256

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Прикладная лингвистика;Корпусная лингвистика;