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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. 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.
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The Changing Face of Corpus Linguistics
LANGUAGE AND COMPUTERS: STUDIES IN PRACTICAL LINGUISTICS No 55 edited by Christian Mair Charles F. Meyer Nelleke Oostdijk
The Changing Face of Corpus Linguistics
Edited by
Antoinette Renouf and Andrew Kehoe
Amsterdam - New York, NY 2006
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Contents The corpus-user’s chorus Sue Blackwell
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Introduction Antoinette Renouf and Andrew Kehoe
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Corpus creation
Oh Canada! Towards the Corpus of Early Ontario English Stefan Dollinger Favoring Americanisms? vs. before and in Early English in Australia: A corpus-based approach Clemens Fritz Computing the Lexicons of Early Modern English Ian Lancashire EFL dictionaries, grammars and language guides from 1700 to 1850: testing a new corpus on points of spokenness Manfred Markus The Old English Apollonius of Tyre in the light of the Old English Concordancer Antonio Miranda García, Javier Calle Martín, David Moreno Olalla and Gustavo Muñoz González 2.
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Diachronic Corpus Study – from past to present
Prediction with SHALL and WILL: a diachronic perspective Maurizio Gotti
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Circumstantial adverbials in discourse: a synchronic and a diachronic perspective Anneli Meurman-Solin and Päivi Pahta
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Changes in textual structures of book advertisements in the ZEN Corpus Caren auf dem Keller
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“Curtains like these are selling right in the city of Chicago for $1.50” – The mediopassive in American 20th-century advertising language Marianne Hundt Recent grammatical change in written English 1961-1992: some preliminary finding