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Corpus-based Studies in Language Use, Language Learning, and Language Documentation..
Title:
Corpus-based Studies in Language Use, Language Learning, and Language Documentation..
Author:
Newman, John.
ISBN:
9789401206884
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (296 pages)
Series:
Language and Computers - Studies in Practical Linguistics, 73 ; v.73

Language and Computers - Studies in Practical Linguistics, 73
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Language Use -- I haven't drank in weeks: the use of past tense forms as past participles in English corpora -- Irregular -im suffixation in Tok Pisin: exploratory methods in multivariate analysis -- Complex extractions in a diachronic perspective -- Subject ellipsis by text type: an investigation using ICE-GB -- 2. Language Learning -- Language learners as language researchers: the acquisition of English grammar through corpus-aided discovery learning approach mediated by intra- and interpersonal dialogues -- A novel, web-based, parallel concordancer for use in the ESL/EFL classroom -- Syntactic aspects of the writing of Swedish L2 learners of English -- Age tagging and word frequency for learners' dictionaries -- 3. Language Documentation -- The expanding horizons of corpus analysis -- Developing a text-based corpus of the language of Japanese comics (manga) -- Corpus linguistics and language documentation: challenges for collaboration -- The Speech Accent Archive: towards a typology of English accents -- Creating and using A frequency dictionary of Contemporary American English: word sketches, collocates, and thematic lists.
Abstract:
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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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