A Glossary Of Corpus Linguistics (glossaries In Linguistics)

809 01 pages i-iv prelims 5/4/06 12:13 Page i A GLOSSARY OF CORPUS LINGUISTICS 809 01 pages i-iv prelims 5/4/06 12:13 Page ii TITLES IN THE SERIES INCLUDE Peter Trudgill A Glossary of Sociolinguistics 0 7486 1623 3 Jean Aitchison A Glossary of Language and Mind 0 7486 1824 4 Laurie Bauer A Glossary of Morphology 0 7486 1853 8 Alan Davies A Glossary of Applied Linguistics 0 7486 1854 6 Geoffrey Leech A Glossary of English Grammar 0 7486 1729 9 Alan Cruse A Glossary of Semantics and Pragmatics 0 7486 2111 3 Philip Carr A Glossary of Phonology 0 7486 2234 9 Vyvyan Evans A Glossary of Cognitive Linguistics 0 7486 2280 2 Mauricio J. Mixco and Lyle Campbell A Glossary of Historical Linguistics 0 7486 2379 5 809 01 pages i-iv prelims 5/4/06 12:13 Page iii A Glossary of Corpus Linguistics Paul Baker, Andrew Hardie and Tony McEnery Edinburgh University Press 809 01 pages i-iv prelims 5/4/06 12:13 Page iv © Paul Baker, Andrew Hardie and Tony McEnery, 2006 Edinburgh University Press Ltd 22 George Square, Edinburgh Typeset in Sabon by Norman Tilley Graphics, Northampton, and printed and bound in Finland by WS Bookwell A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN-10 0 7486 2403 1 (hardback) ISBN-13 978 0 7486 2403 4 ISBN-10 0 7486 2018 4 (paperback) ISBN-13 978 0 7486 2018 0 The right of Paul Baker, Andrew Hardie and Tony McEnery to be identified as authors of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Published with the support of the Edinburgh University Scholarly Publishing Initiatives Fund 809 02 pages 001-049 5/4/06 12:13 Page 1 Introductory Notes Website Addresses We have tried to avoid referring to website addresses where possible, as we found that some of the websites we included at the start of writing this book were no longer in existence when we reached the final stages. We have included websites of some organisations, groups, corpora or software where we feel that the site is unlikely to close down or move. However, we cannot vouch for the longevity of all of the websites given here. If readers wish to follow up specific terms on the internet and are taken to a dead link, we suggest that they accept our apologies and then try a reputable search engine like www.google.com (assuming that Google still exists!). List of Acronyms Corpus linguistics is a discipline that has yielded a prolific number of acronyms. This presents a problem in terms of consistency: some terms are best known by their acronym, others are best known by their full-name. We want to make the ordering of dictionary entries consistent, yet we also want them to be easy to find. So, in ordering dictionary entries we have made the decision to spell out all acronyms as full words, while including a list of all of the acronyms at the beginning of the dictionary along with their full titles. Therefore, readers who want to use this dictionary to find out about the BNC can look up its full title in the acronym list at 809 02 pages 001-049 2 5/4/06 12:13 Page 2 A GLOSSARY OF CORPUS LINGUISTICS the beginning of the book, and then go to the dictionary entry under British National Corpus. ACASD (Automatic Content Analysis of Spoken Discourse) word sense tagging system ACE (Australian Corpus of English) ACH (Association for Computers and the Humanities) ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics) ACLDCI (Association for Co