基本説明
This volume is witness to a spirited and fruitful period in the evolution
of corpus linguistics. In twenty-two articles written by established corpus
linguists, members of the ICAME (International Computer Archive of Modern
and Mediaeval English) association, this new volume brings the reader up to
date with the cycle of activities which make up this field of study as it
is today, dealing with corpus creation, language varieties, diachronic
corpus study from the past to present, present-day synchronic corpus study,
the web as corpus, and corpus linguistics and grammatical theory. It is
thus serves as a valuable guide to the state of the art for linguistic
researchers, teachers and language learners of all persuasions.
Full Description
This volume is witness to a spirited and fruitful period in the evolution of corpus linguistics. In twenty-two articles written by established corpus linguists, members of the ICAME (International Computer Archive of Modern and Mediaeval English) association, this new volume brings the reader up to date with the cycle of activities which make up this field of study as it is today, dealing with corpus creation, language varieties, diachronic corpus study from the past to present, present-day synchronic corpus study, the web as corpus, and corpus linguistics and grammatical theory. It thus serves as a valuable guide to the state of the art for linguistic researchers, teachers and language learners of all persuasions.After over twenty years of evolution, corpus linguistics has matured, incorporating nowadays not just small, medium and large primary corpus building but also specialised and multi-dimensional secondary corpus building; not just corpus analysis, but also corpus evaluation; not just an initial application of theory, but self-reflection and a new concern with theory in the light of experience. The volume also highlights the growing emphasis on language as a changing phenomenon, both in terms of established historical study and the newer short-range diachronic study of 20th century and current English; and the growing area of overlap between these two. Another section of the volume illustrates the recent changes in the definition of `corpus' which have come about due to the emergence of new technologies and in particular of the availability of texts on the world wide web. The volume culminates in the contributions by a group of corpus grammarians to a timely and novel discussion panel on the relationship between corpus linguistics and grammatical theory.
Contents
Sue BLACKWELLAntoinette RENOUF and Andrew KEHOE: Introduction1. Corpus creationStefan DOLLINGER: Oh Canada! Towards the Corpus of Early Ontario EnglishClemens FRITZ: Favoring Americanisms? vs. before and in Early English in Australia: A corpus-based approachIan LANCASHIRE: Computing the Lexicons of Early Modern English Manfred MARKUS: EFL dictionaries, grammars and language guides from 1700 to 1850: testing a new corpus on points of spokennessAntonio Miranda GARCIA, Javier Calle MARTIN, David Moreno OLALLA and Gustavo Munoz GONZALEZ: The Old English Apollonius of Tyre in the light of the Old English Concordancer 2. Diachronic Corpus Study - from past to presentMaurizio GOTTI: Prediction with SHALL and WILL: a diachronic perspective Anneli MEURMAN-SOLIN and PAEIVI PAHTA: Circumstantial adverbials in discourse: a synchronic and a diachronic perspectiveCaren auf dem KELLE: Changes in textual structures of book advertisements in the ZEN CorpusMarianne HUNDT: "Curtains like these are selling right in the city of Chicago for $1.50" - The mediopassive in American 20th-century advertising languageGeoffrey LEECH and Nicholas SMITH: Recent grammatical change in written English 1961-1992: some preliminary findings of a comparison of American with British English 3. Synchronic Corpus Study - present-dayMats DEUTSCHMANN: Social variation in the use of apology formulae in the British National CorpusGoeran KJELLMER: How recent is recent? On overcoming interpretational difficultiesUte ROEMER: Looking at looking: Functions and contexts of progressives in spoken English and `school' English Gabriel OZON: Ditransitives, the Given Before New principle, and textual retrievability: a corpus-based study using ICECUPAnna-Brita STENSTROEM: The Spanish pragmatic marker pues and its English equivalents4. The Web as a CorpusBarry MORLEY: WebCorp: A tool for online linguistic information retrieval and analysisAndrew KEHOE: Diachronic linguistic analysis on the web with WebCorpJosef SCHMIED: New ways of analysing ESL on the WWW with WebCorp and WebPhraseCountCedrick FAIRON and John V. SINGLER: I'm like, "Hey, it works!": Using GlossaNet to find attestations of the quotative (be) like in English-language newspapers5. Corpus Linguistics and Grammatical TheoryJoybrato MUKHERJEE: Corpus linguistics and English reference grammarsChristian MAIR: Tracking ongoing grammatical change and recent diversification in present-day standard English: the complementary role of small and large corporaMichaela MAHLBERG: but it will take time...points of view on a lexical grammar of English6. Grammar Discussion PanelJan AARTS: Corpus linguistics, grammar and theory: Report on a panel discussion at the 24th ICAME conference
