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Title Corpus linguistics around the world / edited by Andrew Wilson, Dawn Archer, Paul Rayson.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2006.

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Description 1 online resource (233 pages) : illustrations (table, charts).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Language and computers ; no. 56
Language and computers ; no. 56.
Note Selected papers of the second conference on corpus linguistics held at Lancaster University in March 2003.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Preface; Methodology and steps towards the construction of EPEC, a corpus of written Basque tagged at morphological and syntactic levels for automatic processing; The mood of the (financial) markets: in a corpus of words and of pictures; Towards a methodology for corpus-based studies of linguistic change: Contrastive observations and their possible diachronic interpretations in the Korpus 2000 and Korpus 90 General Corpora of Danish; Synchronic and diachronic variation: the how and why of sociolinguistic corpora; Statistical analysis of the source origin of Maltese.
Discovering regularities in non-native speechTracking lexical changes in the reference corpus of Slovene texts; Relating linguistic units to socio-contextual information in a spontaneous speech corpus of Spanish; An analysis of lexical text coverage in contemporary German; Analysing a semantic corpus study across English dialects: Searching for paradigmatic parallels; The curse and the blessing of mobile phones -- a corpus-based study into American and Polish rhetorical conventions.
Using a dedicated corpus to identify features of professional English usage: What do "we" do in science journal articles?Methods and tools for development of the Russian Reference Corpus; A profile-based calculation of region and register variation: the synchronic and diachronic status of the two main national varieties of Dutch; A multilingual learner corpus in Brazil; Quantitative or qualitative content analysis? Experiences from a cross-cultural comparison of female students' attitudes to shoe fashions in Germany, Poland and Russia; Survey and Prospect of China's Corpus-Based Research.
Summary This volume contains a selection of the papers delivered at the Corpus Linguistics 2003 conference, held at Lancaster University in April 2003. The papers selected address a wide range of world languages - Basque, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Maltese, Russian, Spanish, and Slovene. Both synchronic and diachronic studies are included, as well as studies of learner language. In addition to mainstream linguistic analyses of phonetics, vocabulary, syntax, semantics, and rhetoric, application areas covered in the volume include financial forecasting, cross-cultural research, cor.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Computational linguistics.
Computational linguistics.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Wilson, Andrew, 1966-
Archer, Dawn.
Rayson, Paul.
Corpus Linguistics Conference (2003 : Lancaster University)
Other Form: Print version: Corpus linguistics around the world. Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2006 9042018364 (OCoLC)68890999
ISBN 1423791371 (electronic book)
9781423791379 (electronic book)
9789401202213
9401202214
9042018364
9789042018365