Corpus, Concordance, CollocationJohn Sinclair charts the emergence of a new view of language and the computer technology associated with it. Developments in computational linguistics over the past ten years are outlined. There is discussion of corpus creation and exemplification of corpus use. The book goes on to spell out the implications of these developments for an understanding of collocation. |
Contents
Corpus creation | 13 |
Cleantext policy | 21 |
Basic text processing | 27 |
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abstract adjective alphabetical analysis Appendix basic cent Chapter choice chunk citation clause clear co-occurrence Cobuild dictionary collocation common words concordance concordancing context conventional corpus linguistics declined declined declined different word-forms distinction English Language environment evidence example explanation fairly Figure focus frequency statistics frequent words give grammar headword human idiom principle important intuitions John Sinclair kind KWIC language text large number lemma lexical lexicography lexis linguistics meaning million words monitor corpus node nominal group normally object occur open-choice principle particular patterns phrasal verb possible preposition problem pronoun reference selection semantic sentence Sinclair small sub-section spoken statement statistical stress the average support noun syntactic syntax Text Encoding Initiative topic transitive verb typical University of Birmingham usage verbal vocabulary whole win a victory word or phrase yield stress Yielded Yielding
References to this book
Developments in English for Specific Purposes Tony Dudley-Evans,Maggie Jo St John No preview available - 1998 |