Corpus Linguistics seeks to provide a comprehensive sampling of real-life usage in a given language, and to use these empirical data to test language hypotheses. Modern corpus linguistics began fifty years ago, but the subject has seen explosive growth since the early 1990s. These days corpora are being used to advance virtually every aspect of language study, from computer processing techniques such as machine translation, to literary stylistics, social aspects of language use, and improved language-teaching methods. Because corpus linguistics has grown fast from small beginnings, newcomers to the field often find it hard to get their bearings. Important papers can be difficult to track down. This volume reprints forty-two articles on corpus linguistics by an international selection of authors, which comprehensively illustrate the directions in which the subject is developing. It includes articles that are already recognized as classics, and others which deserve to become so, supplemented with editorial introductions relating the individual contributions to the field as a whole.
This collection of readings will be useful to students of corpus linguistics at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, as well as academics researching this fascinating area of linguistics.
1. Introduction; 2. From The Structure of English (1952) Charles Carpenter-Fries; 3. A Standard Corpus of Edited Present-Day American English (1965) W. Nelson Francis; 4. On the Distribution of Noun-phrase Types in English Clause-structure (1971) F. G. A. M. Arts; 5. Predicting Text Segmentation into Tone Units (1986) Bengt Altenberg; 6. Typicality and Meaning Potentials (1986) Patrick Hanks; 7. Historical Drift in Three English Genres (1987) Douglas Biber and Edward Finegan; 8. Corpus Creation (1987) John Sinclair; 9. Cleft and Pseudo-cleft Constructions in English Spoken and Written Discourse (1987) Peter C. Collins; 10. What is Wrong with Adding One? (1989) William Gale and Kenneth Church; 11. A Statistical Approach to Machine Translation (1990) Peter F. Brown et al.; 12. A Point of Verb Syntax in South-western British English: An Analysos of a Dialect Continuum (1991) Ossi Ihalalnen; 13. Using Corpus Data in the Swedish Academy Grammar (1991) Staffan Hellberg; 14. On the History of That/Zero as Object Clause Links in English (1991) Matti Rissanen; 15. Encoding the British National Corpus (1992) Gavin Burnage and Dominic Dunlop; 16. Computer Corpora - What Do They Tell Us about Culture? (1992) Geoffrey Leech and Roger Fallon; 17. Representativeness in Corpus Design (1992) Douglas Biber; 18. A Corpus-driven Approach to Grammar: Principles, Methods and Examples (1993) Gill Francis; 19. Structural Ambiguity and Lexical Relations (1993) Donald Hindle and Mats Rooth; 20. Irony in the Text or Insincerity in the Writer? The Diagnostic Potential of Semantic Prosodies (1993) William Louw; 21. Building a Large Annotated Corpus of English: The Penn Treebank (1993) Mitchell P. Marcus et al; 22. Automatically Extracting Collocations from Corpora for Language Learning (1994) Kenji Kita et al.; 23. Developing and Evaluating a Probalistic LR Parser of Part-of-Speech and Punctuation Labels (1995) E. J. Briscoe and J. A. Carroll; 24. Why a Fiji Corpus? (1996) Jan Tent and France Mugler; 25. Treebank Grammars (1996) Eugene Charniak; 26. English Corpus Linguistics and the Foreign Language Teaching Syllabus (1996) Dieter Mindt; 27. Data-oriented Language Processing: An Overview (1996) L. W. M. Bod and R. J. H. Scha; 28. Conflict Talk: A Comparison of the Verbal Disputes between Adolescent Females in Two Corpora (1996) Ingrid Kristine Hasund and Anna-Brita Stenstrom; 29. Assessing Agreement on Classification Tasks: The Kappa Statistic (1996) Jean Carletta; 30. Linguistic and Interactional Features of Internet Relay Chat (1996) Christopher C. Werry; 31. Distinguishing Systems and Distinguishing Senses: New Evaluation Methods for Word Sense Disambiguation (1997) Philip Resnik and David Yarowsky; 32. Qualification and Certainty in L1 and L2 Students' Writing (1997) Kenneth Hyland and John Milton; 33. Analysing and Predicting Patterns of DAMSL Utterance Tags (1998) Mark G. Core; 34. Assessing Claims about Language Use with Corpus Data - Swearing and Abuse (1998) Anthony McEnery et al.; 35. The Syntax of Disfluency in Spontaneous Spoken Language (1998) David McKelvie; 36. The Use of Large Text Corpora for Evaluating Text-to-Text Speech Systems (1998) Louis C. W. Pols et al; 37. The Prague Dependency Treebank: How Much of the Underlying Syntactic Structure can be Tagged Automatically? (1999) Alena Bohmova and Eva Hajicova; 38. Reflections of a Dendrographer (1999) Geoffrey Sampson; 39. A Generic Approach to Software Support for Linguistic Annotation Using XML (2000) Jean Carietta et al.; 40. Europe's Ignored Languages (2001) Anthony McEnery; 41. Semi-automatic Tagging of Intonation in French Spoken Corpora (2001) Estelle Campione and Jean Veronis; 42. Web as Corpus (2001) Adam Kilgarriff; 43. Intonational Variation in the British Isles (2002) Esther Grabe and Brechtje Post.
