Historical Corpora

Author : Paul Durrell, Martin Scheible, Silke Whitt, Richard J. Bennett
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783823367604

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New Methods in Historical Corpora by Paul Durrell, Martin Scheible, Silke Whitt, Richard J. Bennett Pdf

Investigating the history of a language depends on fragmentary sources, but electronic corpora offer the possibility of alleviating the problem of 'bad data'. But they cannot overcome it totally, and questions arise of the optimal architecture for a corpus and its representativeness of actual language use, and how a historical corpus can best be annotated to maximize its usefulness. Immense strides have been made in recent years in addressing these questions, with exciting new methods and technological advances. The papers in this volume, which were presented at a conference on New Methods in Historical Corpora (Manchester 2011), exemplify the wide range of these recent developments.

Author : Jost Gehrke, Ralf Gippert
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783823369226

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Historical Corpora by Jost Gehrke, Ralf Gippert Pdf

The volume contains 23 papers read at the international conference "Historical Corpora 2012", which was hosted by the LOEWE Research Cluster "Digital Humanities" of the State of Hesse at the University of Frankfurt on December 6-8, 2012. The papers, which include three keynote speeches, have been duly updated for the present volume. The contributions take a broad variety of perspectives on "historical corpora", including their structuring, their management, and various other facets. In addition to this, they cover a large amount of different languages, extending from German - in nearly all its historical facettes - across the Romance languages into the Caucasus and from the recent past down into antiquity. Differences also concern the linguistic interests prevailing in the papers, which may focus on syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, lexicological or other phenomena.

Author : Nila Vázquez
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443870191

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Creation and Use of Historical English Corpora in Spain by Nila Vázquez Pdf

Even before the Helsinki Corpus was published, Spain had a good amount of Historical English researchers, such as the group directed by Teresa Fanego in Santiago de Compostela. In the last couple of decades, the number of scholars working in the field of Historical Corpus Linguistics has increased, and, nowadays, there are some interesting projects in Spain that will result in the publication of valuable material for scholars throughout the world. The aim of this volume is twofold. On the on...

Author : Jost Gippert,Ralf Gehrke
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783823379225

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Historical Corpora by Jost Gippert,Ralf Gehrke Pdf

The volume contains 23 papers read at the international conference "Historical Corpora 2012", which was hosted by the LOEWE Research Cluster "Digital Humanities" of the State of Hesse at the University of Frankfurt on December 6-8, 2012. The papers, which include three keynote speeches, have been duly updated for the present volume. The contributions take a broad variety of perspectives on "historical corpora", including their structuring, their management, and various other facets. In addition to this, they cover a large amount of different languages, extending from German - in nearly all its historical facettes - across the Romance languages into the Caucasus and from the recent past down into antiquity. Differences also concern the linguistic interests prevailing in the papers, which may focus on syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, lexicological or other phenomena.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789042029101

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Corpora: Pragmatics and Discourse by Anonim Pdf

This volume presents current state-of-the-art discussions in corpus-based linguistic research of the English language. The papers deal with Present-day English, worldwide varieties of English and the history of the English language. A special focus of the volume are studies in the broad field of corpus pragmatics and corpus-based discourse analysis. It includes corpus-based studies of speech acts, conversational routines, referential expressions and thought styles, as well as studies on the lexis, grammar and semantics of English. And it also includes several studies on technical aspects of corpus compilation, fieldwork and parsing.

Author : Fanny Meunier,Gaëtanelle Gilquin,Magali Paquot
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027203502

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A Taste for Corpora by Fanny Meunier,Gaëtanelle Gilquin,Magali Paquot Pdf

The eleven contributions to this volume, written by expert corpus linguists, tackle corpora from a wide range of perspectives and aim to shed light on the numerous linguistic and pedagogical uses to which corpora can be put. They present cutting-edge research in the authors respective domain of expertise and suggest directions for future research. The main focus of the book is on learner corpora, but it also includes reflections on the role of other types of corpora, such as native corpora, expert users corpora, parallel corpora or corpora of New Englishes. For readers who are already familiar with corpora, this volume offers an informed account of the key role that corpus data play in applied linguistics today. As for readers who are new to corpus linguistics, the overview of approaches, methods and domains of applications presented will undoubtedly help them develop their own taste for corpora. This volume has been edited in honour of Sylviane Granger, who has been one of the pioneers of learner corpus research."

Author : Richard J. Whitt
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027263506

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Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change by Richard J. Whitt Pdf

This volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of the intersecting fields of corpus linguistics, historical linguistics, and genre-based studies of language usage. Papers in this collection are devoted to presenting relevant methods pertinent to corpus-based studies of the connection between genre and language change, linguistic changes that occur in particular genres, and specific diachronic phenomena that are influenced by genre factors to greater and lesser degrees. Data are drawn from a number of languages, and the scope of the studies presented here is both short- and long-term, covering cases of recent change as well as more long-term alterations.

Author : Fries
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789004652804

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Creating and Using English Language Corpora by Fries Pdf

Author : Niladri Sekhar Dash,S. Arulmozi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789811074585

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History, Features, and Typology of Language Corpora by Niladri Sekhar Dash,S. Arulmozi Pdf

This book discusses key issues of corpus linguistics like the definition of the corpus, primary features of a corpus, and utilization and limitations of corpora. It presents a unique classification scheme of language corpora to show how they can be studied from the perspective of genre, nature, text type, purpose, and application. A reference to parallel translation corpus is mandatory in the discussion of corpus generation, which the authors thoroughly address here, with a focus on Indian language corpora and English. Web-text corpus, a new development in corpus linguistics, is also discussed with elaborate reference to Indian web text corpora. The book also presents a short history of corpus generation and provides scenarios before and after the advent of computer-generated digital corpora. This book has several important features: it discusses many technical issues of the field in a lucid manner; contains extensive new diagrams and charts for easy comprehension; and presents discussions in simplified English to cater to the needs of non-native English readers. This is an important resource authored by academics who have many years of experience teaching and researching corpus linguistics. Its focus on Indian languages and on English corpora makes it applicable to students of graduate and postgraduate courses in applied linguistics, computational linguistics and language processing in South Asia and across countries where English is spoken as a first or second language.

Author : Paula Rautionaho,Arja Nurmi,Juhani Klemola
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027261311

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Corpora and the Changing Society by Paula Rautionaho,Arja Nurmi,Juhani Klemola Pdf

This book showcases eleven studies dealing with corpora and the changing society. The theme of the volume reflects the fact that changes in society lead to changes in language and vice versa. Focusing on the English language, be it from Old English to the present, or a shorter time span in the immediate past, the contributors in this volume use a variety of corpus methods to address the two patterns of change. The cross-fertilization of cultural studies and corpus linguistics, we hope, is beneficial for both parties, as corpus linguistics offers a vast array of materials and methods to investigate cultural and societal change, while cultural studies provide the theoretical background on which to build our research. The studies included in the present volume illustrate the potential avenues and the merits of combining changing language and changing societies.

Author : Olga Fischer,Hendrik De Smet,Wim van der Wurff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521768580

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A Brief History of English Syntax by Olga Fischer,Hendrik De Smet,Wim van der Wurff Pdf

An accessible, up-to-date account of the major changes in English syntax since its beginnings up to the present day.

Author : Niladri Sekhar Dash,L. Ramamoorthy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789811318016

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Utility and Application of Language Corpora by Niladri Sekhar Dash,L. Ramamoorthy Pdf

This book discusses some of the basic issues relating to corpus generation and the methods normally used to generate a corpus. Since corpus-related research goes beyond corpus generation, the book also addresses other major topics connected with the use and application of language corpora, namely, corpus readiness in the context of corpus sanitation and pre-editing of corpus texts; the application of statistical methods; and various text processing techniques. Importantly, it explores how corpora can be used as a primary or secondary resource in English language teaching, in creating dictionaries, in word sense disambiguation, in various language technologies, and in other branches of linguistics. Lastly, the book sheds light on the status quo of corpus generation in Indian languages and identifies current and future needs. Discussing various technical issues in the field in a lucid manner, providing extensive new diagrams and charts for easy comprehension, and using simplified English, the book is an ideal resource for non-native English readers. Written by academics with many years of experience teaching and researching corpus linguistics, its focus on Indian languages and on English corpora makes it applicable to graduate and postgraduate students of applied linguistics, computational linguistics and language processing in South Asia and across countries where English is spoken as a first or second language.

Author : Irén Heged?s,Alexandra Fodor
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027273192

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English Historical Linguistics 2010 by Irén Heged?s,Alexandra Fodor Pdf

The volume brings together seventeen peer-reviewed, revised papers originally presented at the 16th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 16), held in August 2010 at the University of Pécs, Hungary. This selection aims to show how theoretical and empirical approaches can be combined in the historical investigation of the English language, what insights and exact information can be obtained about language change in the history of English with the help of tools like historical corpora or with inter- and transdisciplinary methods. The volume is arranged around five thematic headings. The first discusses dialects and regional variation from the viewpoint of contact linguistics and phonological, morphological, and lexical change. The second has syntactic variation and grammaticalization as its focus. Papers on grammatical changes in nominal and pronominal constructions are presented in part three. The integration of loanwords in Middle English is discussed in part four, and the last investigates communicative intentions in historical discourse. The volume should appeal to linguists interested in historical aspects of dialect and discourse studies, historical pragmatics, contact linguistics, grammaticalization theory, corpus linguistics, and of course language change.

Author : Thomas Schmidt,Kai Wörner
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027219343

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Multilingual Corpora and Multilingual Corpus Analysis by Thomas Schmidt,Kai Wörner Pdf

This volume deals with different aspects of the creation and use of multilingual corpora. The term 'multilingual corpus' is understood in a comprehensive sense, meaning any systematic collection of empirical language data enabling linguists to carry out analyses of multilingual individuals, multilingual societies or multilingual communication. The individual contributions are thus concerned with a variety of spoken and written corpora ranging from learner and attrition corpora, language contact corpora and interpreting corpora to comparable and parallel corpora. The overarching aim of the volume is first to take stock of the variety of existing multilingual corpora, documenting possible corpus designs and uses, second to discuss methodological and technological challenges in the creation and analysis of multilingual corpora, and third to provide examples of linguistic analyses that were carried out on the basis of multilingual corpora.

Author : Posavec, Kristina
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781799836827

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Computer Corpora and Open Source Software for Language Learning: Emerging Research and Opportunities by Posavec, Kristina Pdf

During the last four decades, a corpus-based approach to language teaching has become very significant. Direct use of corpora in language pedagogy is limited by certain factors: time, the lecturer’s knowledge and skills needed to analyze the corpus, access to sources such as computers and appropriate computer tools, or a combination of these factors. The key to a successful corpus-based approach is in the appropriate level of the lecturer’s guidance or pedagogical mediation, which depends on student age, experience, and prior knowledge. It is therefore very important that lecturers be equipped with the necessary knowledge and education for using and analyzing corpora on a daily basis. Computer Corpora and Open Source Software for Language Learning: Emerging Research and Opportunities is a cutting-edge research publication that analyzes teacher experiences in implementing computer corpora into their language learning classrooms in order to formulate additional insights as to best strategies for integrating such tools that maximizes language learning efficiency in primary and secondary education. Highlighting topics such as ICT tools, language education, and linguistics, this book is ideal for academicians, educators, computer science teachers, IT professionals, researchers, and students.