English Corpus Linguistics - 9781138836358

Taylor & Francis

This collection of articles form a tribute to Jan Svartvik and his pioneering work in the field. Covers corpus studies, problematic grammar, institution-based and observation-based grammars and the design and development of spoken and written text corpora in different varieties of English. > This collection of articles form a tribute to Jan Svartvik and his pioneering work in the field. Covers corpus studies, problematic grammar, institution-based and observation-based grammars and the design and development of spoken and written text corpora in different varieties of English. > \nPART 1: Goals and methods: the state of the art in corpus linguistics, Geoffrey Leech\n1.2 Corpus studies and probabilistic grammar, M.A.K.Halliday\n1.3 Intuition-based and observation-based grammars, Jan Aarts\n\nPART 2 Corpus design and development: toward a new corpus of spoken American English, \nWallace L.Chafe, et al\n2.2 The development of the international corpus of English\n\nPART 3.