Title English corpus linguistics : looking back, moving forward ; papers from the 30th International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora (ICAME 30), Lancaster, UK, 27-31 May 2009 / edited by Sebastian Hoffmann, Paul Rayson, and Geoffrey Leech

Published Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi B.V., 2012

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations Series Language and computers: Studies in Practical Linguistics ; 74 Language and computers ; 74. Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction: English corpus linguistics -- looking back, moving forward; The grammaticalization and pragmaticalization of cleft constructions in Present-Day English; Interpersonal themes and author stance in student writing; Through seen through the looking glass of translation equivalence: A proposed method for determining closeness of word senses; Semantic patterns of HAVE been to V: Corpus data and elicited data; Differential change in British and American English: Comparing preand post-war data "Love is like a stove -- it burns you when it's hot": A corpus-linguistic view on the (non- )creative use of love-related metaphors in pop songsScare quotes in Norwegian L2 English and British English; NEED TO and the domain of Business in spoken British English; Perfect problems: A corpus-based comparison of the perfect in Bulgarian and German EFL writing; Thematic progression in learner language; The transitive into -ing construction in early twentieth-century American English, with evidence from the TIME Corpus The secret life of the negative: An investigation of polarity and modality in a corpus of newsgroup textsVariation in the progressive in World Englishes: Some preliminary findings; Telicity and the premodifying ing-participle in English; Corpus, coursebook and psycholinguistic evidence on use and concept: The case of category ambiguity; Highly polysemous verbs in New Englishes: A corpus-based pilot study of Sri Lankan and Indian English Summary This book showcases sixteen papers from the landmark 30th conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME) held at Lancaster University in May 2009. The theme of the book 'looking back, moving forward' follows that of the conference where participants reflected on the extraordinary growth of corpus linguistics over three decades as well as looking ahead to yet further developments in the future. A separate volume, appearing as an e-publication in the VARIENG series from the University of Helsinki focuses on the methodological and historical dimensions of Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Print version record Subject English language -- Research -- Data processing -- Congresses English language -- Discourse analysis -- Data processing -- Congresses Computational linguistics -- Congresses LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General. Computational linguistics English language -- Discourse analysis -- Data processing English language -- Research -- Data processing Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings Form Electronic book Author Hoffmann, Sebastian. Rayson, Paul. Leech, Geoffrey N. ISBN 9789401207478 940120747X

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