Synchronic Corpus Linguistics

Author : Yuji Kawaguchi,Makoto Minegishi,Wolfgang Viereck
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027207708

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Corpus-based Analysis and Diachronic Linguistics by Yuji Kawaguchi,Makoto Minegishi,Wolfgang Viereck Pdf

Nowadays, linguists do not question the existence of synchronic variation, and the dichotomy between synchrony and diachrony. They recognize that synchrony can be motivated regionally (diatopic variation), sociolinguistically (diastratic variation), or stylistically (diaphasic variation). But, further, they can also recognize the hybrid nature of synchrony, which is referred to as "dynamic synchrony." This conception of synchrony assumes that similar patterns of usage can coexist in a community during a certain period and that their mutual relations are not static but conflicting enough to result in a future systematic change through symptomatic synchronic variation. Emergence of a large corpus of written texts for some languages has enabled quantitative as well as qualitative analyses of the synchronic conditions for diachronic changes, over both long and short spans of time. Most of the 14 papers in this volume represent studies on synchronic and diachronic variations based on such corpus data. For sale in all countries except Japan. For customers in Japan: please contact Yushodo Co.

Author : Carol E. Percy,Charles F. Meyer,Ian Lancashire
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9042000198

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Synchronic Corpus Linguistics by Carol E. Percy,Charles F. Meyer,Ian Lancashire Pdf

Synchronic corpus linguistics contains select papers from the sixteenth International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora (ICAME 16). The papers reflect the state of the art in the design, analysis, and annotation of corpora. Corpora new and old facilitate the description of single registers of English (e.g., London teenage English, business English) and of specific grammatical topics across registers (e.g., the grammatical flexibility of idioms), including variation studies (e.g., popular vs. technical registers of English). Other corpora permit the comparison of English to other languages (Norwegian, German, Swedish); of L1 English to L2 English; and of English as an original language to English in translation. A number of these papers emphasize pragmatics: indeed, among the papers on spoken English is an assessment of corpora annotated for discourse analysis. Other papers describe different aspects of the automatic analysis of text. Two papers describe semantic analysis of large text corpora composed of news/business text. Automatic grammatical analysis is the subject of other papers: two evaluate existing automatic parsers and wordclass taggers, while two describe how annotated corpora are being used to develop two new and innovative automatic parsers.

Author : Carol E. Percy,Charles F. Meyer,Ian Lancashire
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9042000279

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Synchronic Corpus Linguistics by Carol E. Percy,Charles F. Meyer,Ian Lancashire Pdf

Synchronic corpus linguistics contains select papers from the sixteenth International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora (ICAME 16). The papers reflect the state of the art in the design, analysis, and annotation of corpora. Corpora new and old facilitate the description of single registers of English (e.g., London teenage English, business English) and of specific grammatical topics across registers (e.g., the grammatical flexibility of idioms), including variation studies (e.g., popular vs. technical registers of English). Other corpora permit the comparison of English to other languages (Norwegian, German, Swedish); of L1 English to L2 English; and of English as an original language to English in translation. A number of these papers emphasize pragmatics: indeed, among the papers on spoken English is an assessment of corpora annotated for discourse analysis. Other papers describe different aspects of the automatic analysis of text. Two papers describe semantic analysis of large text corpora composed of news/business text. Automatic grammatical analysis is the subject of other papers: two evaluate existing automatic parsers and wordclass taggers, while two describe how annotated corpora are being used to develop two new and innovative automatic parsers.

Author : J. Beal,K. Corrigan,H. Moisl
Publisher : Springer
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007-06-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780230223936

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Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora by J. Beal,K. Corrigan,H. Moisl Pdf

A range of electronic corpora is increasingly accessible via the WWW and CD-ROM. This development coincided with improved standards governing the collecting, encoding and archiving of such data. This book looks at developing similar standards for enriching and preserving unconventional data: dialects, child language and bilingual databases.

Author : Alejandro Alcaraz-Sintes,Salvador Valera Hernández
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Corpora (Linguistics)
ISBN : 3034313268

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Diachrony and Synchrony in English Corpus Linguistics by Alejandro Alcaraz-Sintes,Salvador Valera Hernández Pdf

The book brings together current research on the description of English using a range of corpora. It consists of a foreword, a review of the diachronic studies and another of the synchronic studies, twelve research papers, and a subject index. Five of the papers are about diachronic description and seven are about synchronic description.

Author : Paul Georg Meyer
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : English language
ISBN : 3823361910

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Synchronic English Linguistics by Paul Georg Meyer Pdf

Author : Antoinette Renouf
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789401201797

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The Changing Face of Corpus Linguistics by Antoinette Renouf Pdf

Preliminary Material /Antoinette Renouf and Andrew Kehoe -- The corpus-user's chorus: (Based on The Major General's Song from Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance) /Antoinette Renouf and Andrew Kehoe -- Introduction: The changing face of corpus linguistics /Antoinette Renouf and Andrew Kehoe -- 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 -- Prediction with SHALL and WILL: a diachronic perspective /Maurizio Gotti -- Circumstantial adverbials in discourse: a synchronic and a diachronic perspective /Anneli Meurman-Solin and Päivi Pahta -- Changes in textual structures of book advertisements in the ZEN Corpus /Caren auf dem Keller -- “Curtains like these are selling right in the city of Chicago for USD 1.50” - The mediopassive in American 20th-century advertising language /Marianne Hundt -- Recent grammatical change in written English 1961-1992: some preliminary findings of a comparison of American with British English /Geoffrey Leech and Nicholas Smith -- Social variation in the use of apology formulae in the British National Corpus /Mats Deutschmann -- How recent is recent? On overcoming interpretational difficulties /Göran Kjellmer -- Looking at looking: Functions and contexts of progressives in spoken English and 'school' English /Ute Römer -- Ditransitives, the Given Before New principle, and textual retrievability: a corpus-based study using ICECUP /Gabriel Ozón -- The Spanish pragmatic marker pues and its English equivalents /Anna-Brita Stenström -- WebCorp: A tool for online linguistic information retrieval and analysis /Barry Morley -- Diachronic linguistic analysis on the web with WebCorp /Andrew Kehoe -- New ways of analysing ESL on the WWW with WebCorp and WebPhraseCount /Josef Schmied -- I'm like, “Hey, it works!”: Using GlossaNet to find attestations of the quotative (be) like in English-language newspapers /Cédrick Fairon and John V. Singler -- Corpus linguistics and English reference grammars /Joybrato Mukherjee -- Tracking ongoing grammatical change and recent diversification in present-day standard English: the complementary role of small and large corpora /Christian Mair -- but it will take time...points of view on a lexical grammar of English /Michaela Mahlberg -- Corpus linguistics, grammar and theory: Report on a panel discussion at the 24th ICAME conference /Jan Aarts.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789401202213

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Corpus linguistics around the world by Anonim Pdf

This volume contains a selection of the papers delivered at the Corpus Linguistics 2003 conference, held at Lancaster University in April 2003. The papers selected address a wide range of world languages - Basque, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Maltese, Russian, Spanish, and Slovene. Both synchronic and diachronic studies are included, as well as studies of learner language. In addition to mainstream linguistic analyses of phonetics, vocabulary, syntax, semantics, and rhetoric, application areas covered in the volume include financial forecasting, cross-cultural research, corpus processing, and language teaching.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789401203791

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Corpus Linguistics and the Web by Anonim Pdf

Using the Web as Corpus is one of the recent challenges for corpus linguistics. This volume presents a current state-of-the-arts discussion of the topic. The articles address practical problems such as suitable linguistic search tools for accessing the www, the question of register variation, or they probe into methods for culling data from the web. The book also offers a wide range of case studies, covering morphology, syntax, lexis, as well as synchronic and diachronic variation in English. These case studies make use of the two approaches to the www in corpus linguistics – web-as-corpus and web-for-corpus-building. The case studies demonstrate that web data can provide useful additional evidence for a broad range of research questions.

Author : Theresa Rass
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783656047148

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Corpus Linguistics - An Introduction to the Field and its Use in Linguistics by Theresa Rass Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2, University of Innsbruck (Anglistik), course: Synchronic and/or Diachronic English Linguistics: English Syntax and Morphology, language: English, abstract: This paper is dealing with the topic of corpus linguistics. It tries to give an overview about this topic, as I think that, although it already gained popularity, not everyone is familiar with it. First, I want to explain what a corpus actually is, and what it is useful for. The different types of corpora will be described and also potential risks of depending to much on computer-processable corpora. Then the focus shifts to the fields of application of corpus linguistics, and also the use in syntax and morphology is discussed. I will also try to illustrate the opportunities a corpus provides by using an example for better understanding. The main aim of this paper is to give an overview about corpus linguistics and the fields of application, with attention to syntax and morphology.

Author : Thomas Joseph Walsh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015026977689

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Synchronic and Diachronic Approaches to Linguistic Variation and Change by Thomas Joseph Walsh Pdf

Author : Eva Zehentner,Melanie Röthlisberger,Timothy Colleman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027249715

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Ditransitives in Germanic Languages by Eva Zehentner,Melanie Röthlisberger,Timothy Colleman Pdf

This volume brings together twelve empirical studies on ditransitive constructions in Germanic languages and their varieties, past and present. Specifically, the volume includes contributions on a wide variety of Germanic languages, including English, Dutch, and German, but also Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian, as well as lesser-studied ones such as Faroese. While the first part of the volume focuses on diachronic aspects, the second part showcases a variety of synchronic aspects relating to ditransitive patterns. Methodologically, the volume covers both experimental and corpus-based studies. Questions addressed by the papers in the volume are, among others, issues like the cross-linguistic pervasiveness and cognitive reality of factors involved in the choice between different ditransitive constructions, or differences and similarities in the diachronic development of ditransitives. The volume’s broad scope and comparative perspective offers comprehensive insights into well-known phenomena and furthers our understanding of variation across languages of the same family.

Author : Maria Napoli,Miriam Ravetto
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027265128

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Exploring Intensification by Maria Napoli,Miriam Ravetto Pdf

This book is the first collective volume specifically devoted to the multifaceted phenomenon of intensification, which has been traditionally regarded as related to the expression of degree, scaling a quality downwards or upwards. In spite of the large amount of studies on intensifiers, there is still a need for the characterization of intensification as a distinct functional category in the domain of modification. The eighteen papers of the volume contribute to this aim with a new approach (mainly corpus-based). They focus on intensification from different perspectives (both synchronic and diachronic) and theoretical frameworks, concern ancient languages (Hittite, Greek, Latin) and modern languages (mainly Italian, German, English, Kiswahili), and involve different levels of analysis. They also identify and examine different types of intensifiers, applied to different forms and structures, such as adverbs, adjectives, evaluative affixes, discourse markers, reduplication, exclamative clauses, coordination, prosodic elements, and shed light on issues which have not been extensively studied so far.

Author : Joanna Kopaczyk,Jukka Tyrkkö
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027264565

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Applications of Pattern-driven Methods in Corpus Linguistics by Joanna Kopaczyk,Jukka Tyrkkö Pdf

The use of corpora has conventionally been envisioned as being either corpus-based or corpus-driven. While the formal definition of the latter term has been widely accepted since it was established by Tognini-Bonelli (2001), it is often applied to studies that do not, in fact, fullfil the fundamental requirement of a theory-neutral starting point. This volume proposes the term pattern-driven as a more precise alternative. The chapters illustrate a variety of methods that fall under this broad methodology, such as the extraction of lexical bundles, POS-grams and semantic frames, and demonstrate how these approaches can uncover new understandings of both synchronic and diachronic linguistic phenomena.

Author : Folke Josephson,Ingmar Söhrman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027205704

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Interdependence of Diachronic and Synchronic Analyses by Folke Josephson,Ingmar Söhrman Pdf

The focus of this volume is the interdependence of diachrony and synchrony in the investigation of syntactic structure. A diverse set of modern and ancient languages is investigated from this perspective, including Hittite, the Classical languages, Old Norse, Coptic, Bantu languages, Australian languages and Creoles. A variety of topics are covered, including TAM, diathesis, valency, case marking, cliticization, and grammaticalization. This volume should be of interest tosyntacticians, typologists, and historical linguists with an interest in syntax and morphology.