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Complementation in British and American English: Corpus-Based Studies on Prepositions and Complement Clauses
Lea Luodes
University Press of America, 2005
Complementation in British and American English applies a new empirical methodology to the study of the English language. It focuses on predicate complementation as a core area of English grammar on the basis of the Bank of English Corpus. At over 600 million words, this electronic corpus is the largest systematic corpus of the language in existence today.
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University Language: A corpus-based study of spoken and written registers (Studies in Corpus Linguistics)
Douglas Biber
John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2006
University students must cope with a bewildering array of registers, not only to learn academic content, but also to understand course expectations and requirements. While many previous studies have investigated academic writing, we know comparatively little about academic speech; and no linguistic study to date has investigated the range of academic and advising/management registers that students encounter. This book is a first step towards ...
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Corpus-based Translation Studies: Theory, Findings, Applications ( Approaches to Translation Studies 17) ...
Sara Laviosa
Rodopi, 2002
In the course of the last 10 years corpus-based studies of translation have given rise to a sizeable and coherent body of research within Pure and Applied Translation Studies. In view of these developments, it is important to assess the state of the art of Corpus-based Translation Studies and attempt to identify some of the main trends that are likely to characterise its expansion. The aim of this volume is to examine and evaluate the main ...
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Corpora in Cognitive Linguistics: Corpus-Based Approaches to Syntax and Lexis (Mouton Select) (Trends in ...
Anatol Stefanowitsch (Editor), Stefan Th. Gries (Editor)
Mouton de Gruyter, 2007
Cognitive Linguistics, the branch of linguistics that tries to "make one's account of human language accord with what is generally known about the mind and the brain," has become one of the most flourishing fields of contemporary linguistics. The chapters address many classic topics of Cognitive Linguistics. These topics include studies on the semantics of specific words (including polysemy and synonymy) as well as semantic characteristics of ...
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Corpus-Based Language Studies: An Advanced Resource Book (Routledge Applied Linguistics)
Anthony McEnery
Routledge, 2006
Routledge Applied Linguistics is a series of comprehensive resource books, providing students and researchers with the support they need for advanced study in the core areas of English language and Applied Linguistics. Each book in the series guides readers through three main sections, enabling them to explore and develop major themes within the discipline. Section A, Introduction, establishes the key terms and concepts and extends readers' ...
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Complements and Constructions: Corpus-Based Studies on Sentential Complements in English in Recent Centuries
Juhani Rudanko
University Press of America, 2002
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A Corpus-based Analysis of English Newspaper Headlines: Linguistic and Semantic Analysis of Newspaper ...
Jee-Young Moon
VDM Verlag, 2008
Recently using English newspapers as a useful teaching tool for English has emerged among educators due to its easy accessibility and wide range of content. In this stream, in particular, English headlines seem to be catchy in getting learners interested and motivated. This study shows the analysis of the headlines by examining an actual sample corpus drawn from The Korea Herald Headlines Corpus (KHC). In addition to this, other corpora, the ...
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Corpus-based Computational Linguistics.(Language and Computers 9)
Eric Atwell, Clive SOUTER
Rodopi Bv Editions, 1993
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Corpus-Based and Computational Approaches to Discourse Anaphora (Studies in Corpus Linguistics)
John Benjamins Publishing Co, 1999
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Linguistic variation within university classroom talk: A corpus-based perspective [An article from: ...
E. Csomay
Elsevier
This digital document is a journal article from Linguistics and Education, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Description: The primary goal of this study is to identify intra-textual linguistic variation in university classroom talk, applying corpus-based techniques to the analysis. First, ...
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Emerging English Modals: A Corpus-Based Study of Grammaticalization (Topics in English Linguistics, No 32) ...
Manfred G. Krug
Mouton De Gruyter, 2000
This monograph provides a detailed account of the fundamental changes which have recently affected - and which are still affecting - the system of English auxiliaries.
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Variation and change in the lexicon. A corpus-based analysis of adjectives in English ending in -ic and -ical ...
Mark KAUNISTO
Editions Rodopi BV., 2007
The present volume is a corpus-based study of the occurrence, variation, and change in the use of English adjective pairs in -ic and -ical over several centuries. The study involves the analysis of large, multi-million-word corpora representing the English language at various stages. It examines the nature of competition between the two affixes: what kind of rivalry existed, what kinds of words entered into competition, and in what ways the ...
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Grammaticalization and English Complex Prepositions A Corpus-Based Study (Routledge Advances in Corpus ...
SEBASTIAN HOFFMANN
Routledge, 2005
What is a grammatical unit? How does grammatical structure evolve? How can we best investigate the mental representation of grammar? What is the connection between language use and language structure? This book aims to help answer such questions by presenting a detailed analysis of English complex prepositions (e.g. in spite of or with respect to) on the basis of large amounts of authentic language data dating from the Middle Ages until ...
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English in Transition: Corpus-Based Studies in Linguistic Variation and Genre Styles (Topics in English ...
Walter de Gruyter, 1997
This book is one of three volumes reporting the results of the project 'English in transition: Change through variation', carried out in the English Department of the University of Helsinki. The first volume, Early English in the computer age: Explorations through the Helsinki Corpus (ed. by Matti Rissanen, Merja Kyto and Minna Palander-Collin, Mouton de Gruyter, 1993) is now followed by two volumes, English in transition: Corpus-based ...
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Corpus-Based Research into Language (Language and Computers) (Language and Computers)
Nelleke Oostdijk
Editions Rodopi, 1994
For over two decades Jan Aarts has been actively involved in corpus linguistic research. He was the instigator of a large number of projects, and he was responsible for what has become known as "the Nijmegen approach" to corpus linguistics. It is thanks to him that words like TOSCA and LDB have become household names in the corpus linguistic community. The present volume has been collected in his honour. The contributions in it cover a wide ...
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