is paper compares the two FGD-based annotation scenarios for Czech and for English, with the Czech as the basis. We discuss the secondary predication expressed by infinitive and its functions in Czech and English, respectively. We give a few examples of English constructions that do not have direct counterparts in Czech (e.g., tough movement and causative constructions with make, get, and have...

Research Article (RA) genre has been a significant area of research in academic writing over past decades. However, authors’ identity in RAs has not received much attention, especially in soft sciences like applied linguistics. This paper reports a corpus analysis of Iranian writers’ authorial presence markers in RAs in the field of applied linguistics. The corpus comprised 30 RAs (200,000 word...

in any discourse domain, certain chunks are particularly frequent and deserve attention by the novice to be initiated and by the expert to maintain a sense of community. to make a relevant contribution to the awareness about applied linguistics texts and discourse, this study attempted to develop lists of lexical chunks frequently used in the abstracts of applied linguistics journals. the abstr...

As a whole system of methods and principles of how to apply corpora in language study, corpus linguistics has revolutionized nearly all branches of linguistics. In the wake of this revolution, people began to rethink language pedagogy from corpus perspective in early 1990s. However, Today, although Corpus Linguistics has contributed much to English education, difficulties do exist, especially i...

The fields of corpus and computational linguistics address fundamental goals – and challenge us to rethink the structure – of humanistic research. All work with historical languages is, in some sense, an exercise in corpus linguistics. The Greek and Latin Treebanks illustrate changes in intellectual practice. Linguistic annotation of historical corpora serves a different community and offers a ...

Not that long ago, all linguistics was corpus linguistics. For much of the twentieth century, though, changes in theoretical fashion put linguists for whom collections of texts are the primary object of study at the margins of the field. Now things are shifting again, and a new generation of linguists with a wakening interest in linguistic data is returning to the field's corpus-based roots. Wh...

Contact Linguistics, throughout its history, has been mostly a data-oriented subdiscipline. From the gathering of word lists in colonial settings by pioneer scholars to the current compilation of narratives, interviews and databanks, Contact Linguistics, differently from other Linguistics subdisciplines, has strived to base its findings on the analysis of actual language produced by speakers of...