A New Corpus Resource for Studies in the Syntactic Characteristics of Terminologies in Contemporary English

In this paper, we present a new corpus resource that has been constructed specially for the study of the syntactic characteristics of terminologies. The corpus is based on the British component of the International Corpus of English (ICE-GB), comprising four parallel subject domains from two text categories (i.e. academic vs. popular prose) with a total of about 200,000 running word tokens. The resource is richly annotated at lexical, grammatical, syntactic, and terminological levels. It is also parameterized according to both text categories and subject domains. The corpus resource is expected to contribute towards a linguistically motivated description of terms and their internal structures. It is also expected to provide an analytical framework for the study of relations between terminological use and text categories as well as subject domains.