Working With German Corpora

✍ Scribed by John Sinclair, Bill Dodd

• Publisher: Continuum
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 329
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The essays in this volume, writen by Germanists from Britain, Ireland, the USA and Australia, illustrate the enormous potential which corpus-based work has for German Studies as a whole and the rich diversity of work currently being undertaken. A detailed introduction explains basic concepts, methods, and applications of corpus-based work.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Foreword......Page 8
Editor's preface......Page 12
Note on language corpora and software......Page 14
Notes on contributors......Page 24
Introduction: The relevance of corpora to German studies......Page 30
Corpus analysis in the service of literary criticism: Goethe's Die Wahlverwandtschaften as a model case......Page 69
When Ost meets West: a corpus-based study of binomial and other expressions before and during German unification......Page 98
German be- verbs revisited: using corpus evidence to investigate valency......Page 125
A corpus-based study of German accusative/dative prepositions......Page 145
Translators at play: exploitations of collocational norms in German–English translation......Page 172
'Die schöne Geschichte': a corpus-based analysis of Thomas Mann's Joseph und seine Brüder......Page 190
Towards a corpus-based comparison of two journals in the field of business and management German......Page 210
The ASTCOVEA German Grammar in conText Project......Page 228
An electronic corpus of Early New High German......Page 246
Rights and obligations in legal contracts: corpus evidence......Page 274
Inflected and periphrastic subjunctive verb forms in German newspaper texts of the 1960s and 1990s......Page 296
C......Page 326
M......Page 327
W......Page 328