Directions in Corpus Linguistics: Proceedings of Nobel Symposium 82 Stockholm, 4-8 August 1991

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Jan Svartvik
Walter de Gruyter, Jun 1, 2011 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 499 pages

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Contents

Opening address
1
Introduction
5
Corpus linguistics comes of age
7
Historical conspectus Language corpora BC
17
Theoretical issues
33
Corpus linguistics or Computeraided armchair linguistics
35
The corpus as a theoretical construct
61
The importance of corpus linguistics to understanding the nature of language
79
Using computerbased text corpora to analyze the referential strategies of spoken and written texts
213
Comments
253
From process to system
257
Comments
308
Using corpus data in the Swedish Academy grammar
311
Comments
332
Preferred ways of putting things with implications for language teaching
335
Comments
374

Comments
98
Corpora and theories of linguistic performance
105
Comments
123
Corpus design and development
127
Design principles in the transcription of spoken discourse
129
Comments
145
Modern Swedish text corpora
149
Comments
164
ICE
171
Comments
180
The diachronic corpus as a window to the history of English
185
Comments
206
Exploration and application of corpora
211
The automatic analysis of corpora
379
Comments
398
The linguist and the software engineer The struggle for high quality computerized language aids
401
Comments
421
Probabilistic parsing
425
Comments
448
Postscript
455
On corpus principles and design
457
Afterword
471
Personal names index
475
Subject index
481
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