This step-by-step guide to creating and analyzing linguistic corpora discusses the role that corpus linguistics plays in linguistic theory. It demonstrates that corpora have proven to be very useful resources for linguists who believe that their theories and descriptions of English should be based on real rather than contrived data. The author shows how to collect and computerize data for inclusion in a corpus and how to annotate and conduct a linguistic analysis once the corpus has been created.
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'... a very welcome addition to the range of corpus linguistic publications. It offers the beginner a brief yet valuable introduction to the basic aims and - especially - the research procedures of corpus linguistics and thus serves a real need.' International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English
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English Corpus Linguistics is a step-by-step guide to creating and analyzing linguistic corpora. It discusses the role that corpus linguistics plays in linguistic theory, demonstrating that corpora have proven to be very useful resources for linguists who believe that their theories and descriptions of English should be based on real rather than contrived data. The author shows how to collect and computerize data for inclusion in a corpus; how to annotate the data; and how to conduct a linguistic analysis of it once it has been created.
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Great Introduction to English Corpus Linguistics!,
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This review is from: English Corpus Linguistics: An Introduction (Studies in English Language) (Paperback)
English Corpus Linguistics: An Introduction is a must read for anyone wanting to secure a first foothold of understanding in the field. I think it would also provide a good overview for experienced corpus linguists. The book is extremely well written. There is no fluff but the text is very readable and open to anyone with an interest. The author is consistent in his prose and does a good job of balancing practical and theoretical concerns. He doesn't waste the reader's time with trifles, but makes a good entry into each well-defined subject area, provides you with a content that presents itself without considerable prerequisites of knowledge, and makes a clean exit with an apt conclusion to each chapter. The material builds on itself but is also spread out - but not to thin to loose perspective - so as not to topple the reader. I think the only thing that I might have added would have been a summary checklist with cross-reference back to individual sections. However, with 141 reading pages, it is concise enough to do a quick review by flipping through the various sections. This is important, because there is much information to take from this book as one furthers their learning.
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"When the first computer corpus, the Brown Corpus, was being created in the early 1960s, generative grammar dominated linguistics, and there was little tolerance for approaches to linguistic study that did not adhere to what generative grammarians deemed ac" Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
many corpus linguists, elliptical coordinations, corpus compiler, corpus creator, determiner deletion, coordination ellipsis, concordancing program, historical corpora, parsed corpus, learner corpora, structural markup, collecting speech, press reportage, computerizing data, corpus analysis, corpus design, corpus linguistics, spontaneous dialogues, genre variation, transcribing speech, sociolinguistic variables, total equivalence, parallel corpus, selecting speakers, language corpora Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
American English, British National Corpus, Brown Corpus, New Zealand, United States, British English, Great Britain, World Wide Web, Helsinki Corpus, Middle English, Modern English, East Africa, International Corpus of English, London-Lund Corpus, Old English, Bank of English Corpus, London Corpus, Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English, Nijmegen Corpus, American National Corpus, English Dictionary, Robert Vesco, Noam Chomsky, The Penn Treebank, Corpus of Early English Correspondence New!
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"When the first computer corpus, the Brown Corpus, was being created in the early 1960s, generative grammar dominated linguistics, and there was little tolerance for approaches to linguistic study that did not adhere to what generative grammarians deemed ac" Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
many corpus linguists, elliptical coordinations, corpus compiler, corpus creator, determiner deletion, coordination ellipsis, concordancing program, historical corpora, parsed corpus, learner corpora, structural markup, collecting speech, press reportage, computerizing data, corpus analysis, corpus design, corpus linguistics, spontaneous dialogues, genre variation, transcribing speech, sociolinguistic variables, total equivalence, parallel corpus, selecting speakers, language corpora Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
American English, British National Corpus, Brown Corpus, New Zealand, United States, British English, Great Britain, World Wide Web, Helsinki Corpus, Middle English, Modern English, East Africa, International Corpus of English, London-Lund Corpus, Old English, Bank of English Corpus, London Corpus, Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English, Nijmegen Corpus, American National Corpus, English Dictionary, Robert Vesco, Noam Chomsky, The Penn Treebank, Corpus of Early English Correspondence New!
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