Corpus-Based Studies in Language Use, Language Learning, and Language Documentation (Language and Computers) by John Newman and Harald Baayen
English | 2011 | ISBN: 9042034017 | 306 pages | PDF | 6 MB
English | 2011 | ISBN: 9042034017 | 306 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This volume consists of selected papers from the 2009 meeting of the American Association for Corpus Linguistics. The chapters cover aspects of language use (usage-based accounts of morphology/syntax of English and Tok Pisin), language learning (corpus-based learning of English, syntactic development observable in a Learner Corpus of English, "core" vocabulary items for learners of English) and language documentation (a new and innovative usage-based frequency dictionary of English, proposals to broaden the traditional understanding of a corpus in various directions, e.g., constructing a corpus of the content of Japanese manga comics). Taken together, the thirteen chapters represent a good cross-section of strands of new work in corpus linguistics, as practised by international scholars working on English and other languages.