EXPLORATIONS IN CORPUS LINGUISTICS

Preface. I. CORPUS DEVELOPMENT: METHODS AND ISSUES. Kristine HASUND: Protecting the innocent: The issue of informants’ anonymity in the COLT corpus Error! Bookmark not defined. Jukka KERANEN: The Corpus of early English correspondence: Progress report. II. CORPUS ANALYSIS: SYNCHRONIC AND DIACHRONIC STUDIES. Gunnar BERGH, Aimo SEPPANEN & Joe TROTTA: Language corpora and the Internet: A joint linguistic resource. Pieter de HAAN: How ‘native-like’ are advanced learners of English? Christine JOHANSSON and Christer GEISLER: Pied Piping in Spoken English. Goran KJELLMER: Why is nrather dlifficult rather difficult? On changes in English initial consonant clusters. Magnus LEVIN: On concord with collective nouns in English. Magnus LJUNG: ‘It is believed that he is dead’. Unspecified source attribution in news texts. Christian MAIR: Man/woman which… – Last of the old, or first of the new? Manfred MARKUS: A-adjectives (asleep etc.) in postnominal position: Etymology as a cause of word order (corpus-based). Minna NEVALA: By him that loves you: Address forms in letters written to 16th-century social aspirers. Arja NURMI: Periphrastic DO and the language of social aspirers: Evidence from the Corpus of Early English Correspondence. Nelleke OOSTDIJK: Language use in a restricted domain. Antoinette RENOUF and R. Harald BAAYEN: Aviating among the hapax legomena: Morphological grammaticalisation in current British newspaper English. Hakan RINGBOM: High-frequency verbs in the ICLE Corpus. Andrea SAND: First findings from ICE-Jamaica: The verb phrase. Anne WICHMANN: Using intonation to create conversational space: Projecting topics and turns. Martin WYNNE, Mick SHORT and Elena SEMINO: A corpus-based investigation of speech, thought and writing presentation in English narrative texts. III. CORPUS LINGUISTICS RESULTS: CREATION OF RESOURCES AND TOOLS. Bas AARTS, Gerald NELSON and Justin BUCKLEY: The Internet grammar of English: New horizons in grammar pedagogy. Alex COLLIER: Identifying diachronic change in semantic relations. Mike PACEY: The use of clustering techniques to reveal semantic relations between words. Pam PETERS: In quest of international English: Mapping the levels of regional divergence.