Corpus-based studies in language use, language learning, and language documentation /
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 developmen...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Editions Rodopi,
2011.
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| Series: | Language and computers ;
no. 73. |
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Table of 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 classroomSyntactic 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.