English Corpus Linguistics An Introduction |
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| Author:
| Meyer, Charles F. |
| Series title: | Studies in English Language Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-80879-8 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2002 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $101.00 |
Book Description:
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English Corpus Linguistics is a step-by-step guide to creating and analyzing linguistic corpora. It discusses the role that corpus linguistics plays in linguistic theory, demonstrating that corpora have proven to be very useful resources for linguists who believe that their theories and descriptions of English should be based on real rather than contrived data. The author shows how to collect and computerize data for inclusion in a corpus; how to annotate the data; and how to conduct a...
More DescriptionEnglish Corpus Linguistics is a step-by-step guide to creating and analyzing linguistic corpora. It discusses the role that corpus linguistics plays in linguistic theory, demonstrating that corpora have proven to be very useful resources for linguists who believe that their theories and descriptions of English should be based on real rather than contrived data. The author shows how to collect and computerize data for inclusion in a corpus; how to annotate the data; and how to conduct a linguistic analysis of it once it has been created.