Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. From The Structure of English (1952) Charles Carpenter-Fries; 3. A Standard Corpus of Edited Present-Day American English (1965) W. Nelson Francis; 4. On the Distribution of Noun-phrase Types in English Clause-structure (1971) F. G. A. M. Arts; 5. Predicting Text Segmentation into Tone Units (1986) Bengt Altenberg; 6. Typicality and Meaning Potentials (1986) Patrick Hanks; 7. Historical Drift in Three English Genres (1987) Douglas Biber and Edward Finegan; 8. Corpus Creation (1987) John Sinclair; 9. Cleft and Pseudo-cleft Constructions in English Spoken and Written Discourse (1987) Peter C. Collins; 10. What is Wrong with Adding One? (1989) William Gale and Kenneth Church; 11. A Statistical Approach to Machine Translation (1990) Peter F. Brown et al.; 12. A Point of Verb Syntax in South-western British English: An Analysos of a Dialect Continuum (1991) Ossi Ihalalnen; 13. Using Corpus Data in the Swedish Academy Grammar (1991) Staffan Hellberg; 14. On the History of That/Zero as Object Clause Links in English (1991) Matti Rissanen; 15. Encoding the British National Corpus (1992) Gavin Burnage and Dominic Dunlop; 16. Computer Corpora - What Do They Tell Us about Culture? (1992) Geoffrey Leech and Roger Fallon; 17. Representativeness in Corpus Design (1992) Douglas Biber; 18. A Corpus-driven Approach to Grammar: Principles, Methods and Examples (1993) Gill Francis; 19. Structural Ambiguity and Lexical Relations (1993) Donald Hindle and Mats Rooth; 20. Irony in the Text or Insincerity in the Writer? The Diagnostic Potential of Semantic Prosodies (1993) William Louw; 21. Building a Large Annotated Corpus of English: The Penn Treebank (1993) Mitchell P. Marcus et al; 22. Automatically Extracting Collocations from Corpora for Language Learning (1994) Kenji Kita et al.; 23. Developing and Evaluating a Probalistic LR Parser of Part-of-Speech and Punctuation Labels (1995) E. J. Briscoe and J. A. Carroll; 24. Why a Fiji Corpus? (1996) Jan Tent and France Mugler; 25. Treebank Grammars (1996) Eugene Charniak; 26. English Corpus Linguistics and the Foreign Language Teaching Syllabus (1996) Dieter Mindt; 27. Data-oriented Language Processing: An Overview (1996) L. W. M. Bod and R. J. H. Scha; 28. Conflict Talk: A Comparison of the Verbal Disputes between Adolescent Females in Two Corpora (1996) Ingrid Kristine Hasund and Anna-Brita Stenstrom; 29. Assessing Agreement on Classification Tasks: The Kappa Statistic (1996) Jean Carletta; 30. Linguistic and Interactional Features of Internet Relay Chat (1996) Christopher C. Werry; 31. Distinguishing Systems and Distinguishing Senses: New Evaluation Methods for Word Sense Disambiguation (1997) Philip Resnik and David Yarowsky; 32. Qualification and Certainty in L1 and L2 Students' Writing (1997) Kenneth Hyland and John Milton; 33. Analysing and Predicting Patterns of DAMSL Utterance Tags (1998) Mark G. Core; 34. Assessing Claims about Language Use with Corpus Data - Swearing and Abuse (1998) Anthony McEnery et al.; 35. The Syntax of Disfluency in Spontaneous Spoken Language (1998) David McKelvie; 36. The Use of Large Text Corpora for Evaluating Text-to-Text Speech Systems (1998) Louis C. W. Pols et al; 37. The Prague Dependency Treebank: How Much of the Underlying Syntactic Structure can be Tagged Automatically? (1999) Alena Bohmova and Eva Hajicova; 38. Reflections of a Dendrographer (1999) Geoffrey Sampson; 39. A Generic Approach to Software Support for Linguistic Annotation Using XML (2000) Jean Carietta et al.; 40. Europe's Ignored Languages (2001) Anthony McEnery; 41. Semi-automatic Tagging of Intonation in French Spoken Corpora (2001) Estelle Campione and Jean Veronis; 42. Web as Corpus (2001) Adam Kilgarriff; 43. Intonational Variation in the British Isles (2002) Esther Grabe and Brechtje Post.

About the Author

Geoffrey Sampson is a former Professor of Natural Language Computing at the School of Informatics, University of Sussex. He is now a Research Fellow at the University of South Africa. Diana McCarthy is a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow, in the Department of Informatics at Sussex University.

Reviews

...I highly recommend Corpus Linguistics: Readings in a Widening Discipline to anyone with any interest in linguistic corpora. Besides bringing students and practitioners of other branches of linguistics up to speed on advances in modern corpus linguistics, this volume may as a secondary effect help inform applied, computational, descriptive, and even theoretical linguists about each other's fields... In any event, this collection is a wonderful addition to the currently available textbooks on corpus linguistics, and provides yet another reason that, as the editors say in their introduction, 'this is a good time to bcome a corpus linguist'. Robert Malouf, San Diego State University. Compuational Linguistics
*Robert Malouf, San Diego State University*

  "The editors have made significant contributions to the area of corpus linguistics and here they provide a coherent presentation of the approach enunciated in various arenas over the years. The result is a collection of articles intended as a basic source book of 'background knowledge' for students working in the field of corpus linguistics.... are numerous features that make the book easily accessible and thoroughly rewarding to read.... Overall, the book is an extremely valuable resource on its own, not only for corpus linguists as a valuable reference. Those newly interested in the area will also find the volume an essential collection, not least to understand the wider field of corpus linguistics and the historical developments it has undergone. The richness of the book is the editors' vast collective experience and knowledge in presenting the development in terms of linguistic research..... This is an impressive volume that demonstrates just how far the field has progressed over the last 50 years." -Linguist List, April 2006  

'...the book has been compiled with a lot of thought, covering a large number of different topic areas within corpus linguistics. The editors' introductions to each chapter are very useful as they do not only briefly summarize the chapter but also put it into context for the readers. All chapters are relatively short so that they are not overwhelming for a reader new to the area and all were selected for their importance to the field of corpus linguistics.'
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'...the book is an extremely valuable resource to own, not only for corpus linguists as reference, but also for those newly interested in the area to understand the wider field of corpus linguistics as well as the historical development that it has undergone.' Ute Knoch, University of Auckland, New Zealand. Review on LinguistList.
*Blurb from reviewer*