Full Description
This collection of articles form a tribute to Jan Svartvik and his pioneering work in the field. Covers corpus studies, problematic grammar, institution-based and observation-based grammars and the design and development of spoken and written text corpora in different varieties of English.
Contents
PART 1: Goals and methods: the state of the art in corpus linguistics, Geoffrey Leech
1.2 Corpus studies and probabilistic grammar, M.A.K.Halliday
1.3 Intuition-based and observation-based grammars, Jan Aarts
PART 2 Corpus design and development: toward a new corpus of spoken American English,
Wallace L.Chafe, et al
2.2 The development of the international corpus of English
PART 3 Exploration of corpora: between and through - the company they keep and the functions they serve, Graeme Kennedy
3.2 A mint of phrases, Goran Kjellmer; collocational frameworks in English, Antoinette Renouf and John McH.Sinclair
3.3 The modals of obligation and necessity in Australian English, Peter Collins
3.4 A corpus-based study of apposition in English, Charles F.Meyer
3.5 Syntactic evidence for semantic distinctions in English, Dieter Mindt; on having a look in a corpus, Gabriele Stein and Randolph Quirk
3.6 On the exploitation of computerized corpora in variation studies, Douglas Biber and Edward Finegan
3.7 Stylistic profiling, David Crystal
3.8 Expletives in the London-Lund corpus,Anna-Brita Stenstrom
3.9 Conversational style in British and American English - the case of backchannels, Gunnel Tottie
3.10 On the history of that/zero as object clause links in English, Matti Rissanen
3.11 A point of verb syntax in South-western British English - an analysis of a dialect continuum, Ossi Ihalainen
PART 4 Prospects for the future: times change, and so do corpora, Stig Johansson
Appendix: List of computer corpora.
