Corpus linguistics and the description of English

English Corpus Linguistics An Introduction

Cambridge Handbook of English Corpus Linguistics

The growing interest in corpus linguistics methods in the 1970s and 1980s was largely enabled by the increased power of computers and the use of computational methods to store and process language samples. Before this, even simple methods for studying language such as extracting a list of all the different words in a text and their immediate contexts was incredibly time consuming and costly in ...

Corpus Linguistics and the Automatic Analysis of English

In a recent paper advocating a corpus-based and probabilistic approach to grammar development, Black, Lafferty, and Roukos (1992) argue that "the current state of the art is far from being able to produce a robust parser of general English" and advocate "steady and quantifiable," empirically corpus-driven grammar development and testing. Black et al. are addressing a community in which armchair...

The Time Dimension in Modern English Corpus Linguistics

The corpus-based analysis of modern English tends to focus on language which has been written or spoken at a particular point in time, and a corpus is conventionally set up as synchronic entity. A synchronic study is often entirely appropriate, but language is a changing phenomenon, and linguists are also interested in that dimension: curious to trace an earlier language feature through to the ...

on the relationship between using discourse markers and the quality of expository and argumentative academic writing of iranian english majors

the aim of the present study was to investigate the frequency and the type of discourse markers used in the argumentative and expository writings of iranian efl learners and the differences between these text features in the two essay genres. the study also aimed at examining the influence of the use of discourse markers on the participants’ writing quality. to this end the discourse markers us...