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A Comparative Study of Introductory ‘it’ in A Comparative Study of Introductory ‘it’ in Research Articles Across Eight Disciplines http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/publications/CL2007/abstract/13_Abstract.pdf Abstract This paper describes an analysis of introductory ‘it’ plus that-clause and to-clause complementation, structures said to be particularly important in academic English, in 288 research articles (RAs) across eight disciplines. We also.. 더보기
A Corpus-Driven Study of the Variation of Co-Occurrence A Corpus-Driven Study of the Variation of Co-Occurrence Patterns in Written and Spoken Registers Abstract This paper will focus on the study of the variation of co-occurrence patterns encountered in written and spoken registers, through the analysis of a large lexical database of corpus-extracted multiword expressions (MWEs) of European Portuguese. Those MWEs were automatically extracted from a .. 더보기
Collocations in Translated Language: Collocations in Translated Language: Combining Parallel, Comparable and Reference Corpora 1. Introduction This paper describes an attempt at investigating some collocational properties of translated language. The notion of collocation is one of the cornerstones of corpus linguistics, and has been the subject of substantial speculation and empirical research (section 2.1). Within translation stud.. 더보기
Polysemy and lexical priming Polysemy and lexical priming The case of drive Fanie Tsiamita Hoey’s theory of lexical priming makes three claims with respect to polysemy. According to one of them, two similarly common senses of a polysemous lexical item will avoid each others’ primings (cf. Hoey 2005: 82). The aim of this paper is to examine the extent to which this claim is valid with data on the polysemous noun drive. The s.. 더보기
Exploring the Lexis–Grammar Interface Exploring the Lexis–Grammar Interface Edited by Ute Römer and Rainer Schulze University of Michigan / Leibniz University of Hanover [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 35] 2009. vi, 321 pp. Publishing status: Available This volume showcases studies that recognize and provide evidence for the inseparability of lexis and grammar. The contributors explore in what ways these two areas, often treated sep.. 더보기
Book review: Hoey's Lexical priming Book review: Hoey's Lexical priming 더보기
Evidence of Lexical Priming Evidence of Lexical Priming http://www.scribd.com/doc/33664352/Evidence-of-Lexical-Priming I use corpus linguistics very much along the lines of John-Sinclair's"Trust the text". I neither do corpus-assisted research (where a set theoryand a set notion of language is simply proven by bringing in results fromreal (or natural) data nor is it corpus-based research (pretty similar to theabove. Howeve.. 더보기
Lexical priming and the properties of text 보호되어 있는 글입니다. 더보기
Modelling Variation in Spoken and Written English Using fresh data from the British National Corpus, this book criticizes and expands Biber's seminal study (1988) of variation in spoken and written English. The author assesses the validity, stability and meaningfulness of Biber's results, critically re-evaluating the statistical methodology. In the process, many issues of importance in corpus-based research are touched upon, including: research.. 더보기
Corpus Approaches to Evaluation: Phraseology and Evaluative Language Corpus Approaches to Evaluation: Phraseology and Evaluative Language Publisher Comments: This book applies a set of corpus investigation techniques to the study of evaluation, or stance, or affect, in naturally-occurring discourse. Evaluative language indicates opinions, attitudes, and judgments. It is an important part of activities such as persuading someone that a particular viewpoint is corr.. 더보기