Corpus-based studies in language use, language learning, and language documentation / edited by John Newman, Harald Baayen and Sally Rice.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Newman, John, 1948-

Baayen, R. Harald.

Rice, Sally, 1956-

Conference Name:

American Association for Corpus Linguistics (AACL) Conference (2009 : Edmonton, Alta.)

Series:

Language and Computers 73.

Language and computers : studies in practical linguistics ; no. 73

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linguistics--Congresses.

Linguistics.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Preliminary material / Editors Corpus-based Studies in Language Use, Language Learning, and Language Documentation

Introduction / Editors Corpus-based Studies in Language Use, Language Learning, and Language Documentation

I haven’t drank in weeks: the use of past tense forms as past participles in English corpora / Kristina Geeraert and John Newman

Irregular -im suffixation in Tok Pisin: exploratory methods in multivariate analysis / Conor Snoek

Complex extractions in a diachronic perspective / Gunnar Bergh

Subject ellipsis by text type: an investigation using ICE-GB / Laura Teddiman

Language learners as language researchers: the acquisition of English grammar through a corpus-aided discovery learning approach mediated by intra- and interpersonal dialogues / Li-Shih Huang

A novel, web-based, parallel concordancer for use in the ESL/EFL classroom / Laurence Anthony , Kiyomi Chujo and Kathryn Oghigian

Syntactic aspects of the writing of Swedish L2 learners of English / Christine Johansson and Christer Geisler

Age tagging and word frequency for learners’ dictionaries / Hanhong Li and Alex C. Fang

The expanding horizons of corpus analysis / Brian MacWhinney

Developing a text-based corpus of the language of Japanese comics (manga) / Giancarla Unser-Schutz

Corpus linguistics and language documentation: challenges for collaboration / Christopher Cox

The Speech Accent Archive: towards a typology of English accents / Steven H. Weinberger and Stephen A. Kunath

Creating and using A frequency dictionary of Contemporary American English: word sketches, collocates, and thematic lists / Mark Davies and Dee Gardner.

Notes:

"Collection of selected papers presented at the American Association for Corpus Linguistics Conference, held in Edmonton, Alberta, on October 8-11, 2009."

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786613366221

9789401206884

9401206880

9781283366229

1283366223

OCLC:

768083015

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401206884 DOI