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International Journal of Corpus Linguistics - Volume 1, Issue 2, 1996
Volume 1, Issue 2, 1996
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Investigating Language Use Through Corpusbased Analyses of Association Patterns
Author(s): Douglas Biberpp.: 171–197 (27)More LessThe present paper argues that analyses of language use provide an important complementary perspective to traditional linguistic descriptions, and that empirical approaches are required for such investigations. Corpus-based techniques are particularly well suited to these research purposes, enabling investigation of research questions that were previously disregarded. Specifically, the paper discusses the use of corpus-based techniques to identify and analyze complex "association patterns": the systematic ways in which linguistic features are used in association with other linguistic and non-linguistic features. Several illustrative analyses are discussed, investigating the use of lexical features, grammatical features, and the overall patterns of variability among texts and registers.
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The Borrowing of Classical and Romance Words into English: A Study Based on the Electronic Oxford English Dictionary
Author(s): Jonathan Culpeper and Phoebe Claphampp.: 199–218 (20)More LessThis paper describes a study designed to investigate the effect of Classical and Romance vocabulary on the English lexicon. The study involved a series of computer searches, using the CD-ROM version of the Oxford English Dictionary (1989). Our aim was to discover how many and at what point in time words were borrowed into English from Greek, Latin, French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese. The paper describes the general obstacles and limitations — both with the Oxford English Dictionary and the computer searches — that circumscribe our results. We then present our findings, relating them to extant research.
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Epistemic Disjuncts in Early Modern English
Author(s): Dolores González-Álvarezpp.: 219–256 (38)More LessThis paper offers a description of epistemic disjunct adverbs in Early Modern English. Section I outlines the development of epistemic disjuncts in the history of English, concentrating on the kinds of comment they could lexicalise.. Briefly, OE epistemic adverbs only encoded the speaker's comment on the high probability or importance of the proposition they related to. ME allowed a new type of comment, namely on the low probability of the adjoined proposition. In the second section, the data drawn from the computarised Helsinki Corpus suggest that though Early Modern English is a transitional period in epistemic disjunct development, it shows greater semantic diversification than OE and ME. Syntactic and distributional features are considered in every case. Finally, sociolinguistic variables and the registers and text types which favour the occurrence of these adverbs are also specified.
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The Corpus from a Terminographer's Viewpoint
Author(s): Ingrid Meyer and Kristen Mackintoshpp.: 257–285 (29)More LessWhile the use of corpora is well-established in lexicography, it is still in its infancy in terminography. This paper argues that the importance of domain knowledge in terminography makes the terminographer a significantly different kind of corpus user than the lexicographer. We begin by identifying the role of a corpus in terminography. Next, we propose ways of designing and balancing corpora so that they are consistent with these roles. Finally, we outline a number of terminography-specific functionalities that would be useful in a terminographer's workbench. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of corpus terminography for terminographical methods, for the design of terminological dictionaries, and for corpus shareability.
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Cobuild: The State of the Art
Author(s): Jeremy Clear, Gwyneth L. Fox, Gill Francis, Ramesh Krishnamurthy and Rosamund Moonpp.: 303–314 (12)More Less
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Abstracts
Author(s): Hilde Hasselgård, Juhani Klemola, Susan Pintzuk and Merja Kytöpp.: 335–343 (9)More Less
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