In spite of the highly beneficial applications of corpus linguistics in language pedagogy, it has not found its way into mainstream EFL. The major reasons seem to be the teachers’ lack of training and the unavailability of resources, especially computers in language classes. Phrasal verbs have been shown to be a problematic area of learning English as a foreign language due to their semantic op...

This study aims to investigate the semantic and syntactic features of verbs used in the introduction section of Applied Linguistics research articles published in Iranian and international journals. A corpus of 20 research article introductions (10 from each journal) was used. The corpus was analysed for the syntactic features (tense, aspect and voice) and semantic meaning of verbs. The finding...

The study reported in this paper attempts to conduct a corpus-driven investigation of an electronic corpus with a view to spot possible metaphors. The corpus is composed of dissertations in Applied Linguistics. In Corpus Linguistics, an important distinction is made between corpus-based and corpus-driven investigations (TogniniBonelli, 2001). The former is considered to be restricted to using a...

English Historical Linguistics has a rich and long-standing tradition of corpus-based work (cf. the surveys in Rissanen 2008, Kytö 2012). Resources such as the HELSINKI corpus, the BROWN family of corpora, and ARCHER have spawned active research programs for the study of lexical and grammatical change, both long-term (Curzan 2008) and short-term (Mair 2008). In addition, corpus resources inform...

In this paper an incremental method and an interactive tool to improve the performance of word alignment are presented. The most important factor in our proposal is to put a human in the alignment loop. This is achieved by using interactive word alignment, i.e., a word alignment system and a human that are collaborating in order to make word alignment as efficient and accurate as possible. The ...

The papers represent a particular language theory, systemic functional linguistics. The papers also reflect a particular view of the relation between language, knowledge, and the world; in particular, the papers describe the ways in which evaluative language expresses the value systems of individuals and communities. Finally, the authors have used a particular methodology in their research, the...

Corpus Linguistics 25 Years on, however may be a bit misleading, as only Part I really provides the historical account many readers might be looking for. Parts II and III really more offer a snapshot of the current state-of-the-art, not unlike conference proceedings. However, editor Roberta Facchinetti has skilfully managed to maintain a well-rounded topical spread over the contributions. In do...

In this paper, I present a specialized opensource crawler that can be used to obtain bias-reduced samples from the web. First, I briefly discuss the relevance of bias-reduced web corpus sampling for corpus linguistics. Then, I summarize theoretical results that show how commonly used crawling methods obtain highly biased samples from the web. The theoretical part of the paper is followed by a d...

What counts as evidence in linguistics? In our discipline this is a perennial issue, a question to which different schools and generations of linguists have given varying responses. Inductive procedures, the analysis of language samples known as corpora, have been one strong option since Bloomfield's structuralism and have gained increasing momentum in recent years. Technological advances have ...

The Open Linguistics Working Group (OWLG) is an initiative of experts from different fields concerned with linguistic data, including academic linguistics (e.g. typology, corpus linguistics), applied linguistics (e.g. computational linguistics, lexicography and language documentation), and NLP (e.g. from the Semantic Web community). The primary goals of the working group are 1) promoting the id...