Author's acknowledgements |
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Publisher's acknowledgements |
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1.2 The role of computers in corpus linguistics |
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1.3 The scope of corpus linguistics |
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Chapter Two The design and development of corpora |
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2.1 Pre-electronic corpora |
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2.1.1 Biblical and literary |
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2.2 Types of electronic corpora |
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2.3 Major electronic corpora for linguistic research |
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2.3.1 First generation corpora |
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2.3.1.2 The Lancaster--Oslo/Bergen (LOB) Corpus |
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27 | (2) |
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2.3.1.3 Other first generation corpora modelled on the Brown Corpus |
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29 | (2) |
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2.3.1.4 The London--Lund Corpus (LLC) |
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31 | (2) |
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2.3.2 Corpora of English compiled for specialized purposes |
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2.3.2.1 Corpora for lexicography |
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2.3.2.2 Dictionaries as corpora |
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2.3.2.3 Corpora for studying spoken English |
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36 | (2) |
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2.3.2.4 Diachronic corpora |
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38 | (2) |
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2.3.2.5 Corpora for research on language acquisition |
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2.3.2.6 Other corpora for special purposes |
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2.3.3 Second generation mega-corpora |
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2.3.3.1 The Cobuild project |
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2.3.3.2 The Longman Corpus Network |
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48 | (2) |
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2.3.3.3 The British National Corpus (BNC) |
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50 | (4) |
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2.3.3.4 The International Corpus of English (ICE) |
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54 | (3) |
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2.4 Electronic text databases |
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57 | (3) |
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2.5 Issues in corpus design and compilation |
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60 | (2) |
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2.5.2 Representativeness and balance |
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62 | (4) |
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2.6.2 Planning a storage system and keeping records |
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2.7 Organizations and professional associations concerned with corpus design, development and research |
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85 | (3) |
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Chapter Three Corpus-based descriptions of English |
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3.1.1 Pre-electronic lexical description for pedagogical purposes |
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93 | (4) |
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3.1.2 Computer corpus-based studies of the lexicon |
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97 | (11) |
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108 | (13) |
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3.2 Grammatical studies centred on morphemes or words |
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121 | (33) |
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3.2.1 Verb-form use for tense and aspect |
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122 | (8) |
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130 | (4) |
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134 | (3) |
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3.2.4 Verb and particle use |
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3.2.6 Prepositions: of, at, from, between, through, by |
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139 | (5) |
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3.2.7 Conjunctions: since, when, once |
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144 | (8) |
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152 | (2) |
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3.3 Grammatical studies centred on the sentence |
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154 | (20) |
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157 | (2) |
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3.3.2 Syntactic processes |
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159 | (1) |
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3.3.2.1 Clause patterning |
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159 | (3) |
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3.3.2.2 Noun modification |
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162 | (3) |
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165 | (2) |
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171 | (2) |
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3.4 Pragmatics and spoken discourse |
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174 | (6) |
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3.5 Corpus-based studies of variation in the use of English |
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3.5.1 Comparisons of spoken and written English |
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182 | (8) |
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3.5.2 Comparisons of regional varieties of English |
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190 | (7) |
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3.5.3 Variation in registers and genres |
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197 | (2) |
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3.5.4 Studies of language change |
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199 | (5) |
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Chapter Four Corpus analysis |
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4.1 Corpus annotation and processing |
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206 | (38) |
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206 | (3) |
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209 | (16) |
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4.1.3 Semantic aspects of tagging |
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225 | (6) |
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231 | (13) |
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4.2 Procedures used in corpus analysis |
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244 | (15) |
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245 | (2) |
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247 | (11) |
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4.2.3 Statistics in corpus analysis |
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258 | (1) |
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4.3 Corpus search and retrieval software |
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259 | (9) |
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4.3.1 The Oxford Concordance Program (OCP) |
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260 | (1) |
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4.3.4 Other widely used software for special purposes |
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263 | (2) |
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4.3.5 New generation software |
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265 | (3) |
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Chapter Five Implications and applications of corpus-based analysis |
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268 | (27) |
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5.1 Goals of linguistic description and the effect of corpora on methodology |
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270 | (6) |
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5.1.1 Language as possibility and language as probability |
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270 | (3) |
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5.1.2 The description of English |
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273 | (3) |
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5.2 Corpus linguistics and computational linguistics |
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276 | (4) |
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5.3 Corpus-based approaches to language teaching |
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280 | (15) |
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5.3.1 The content of language teaching |
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282 | (6) |
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5.3.2 Language teaching methodology |
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288 | (7) |
References |
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Index |
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