Corpus Linguistics (1991, NS 82) Jan Svartvik et al. August 4-8, IBM Nordik Education Center, Elfvik, Lidingö Proceedings: Jan Svartvik, et al. Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 65 (1992), Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, Germany ISBN 3-11-012826-8

 

Table of Contents
Preface	v
Symposium participants	xi
Opening address Sture Allén	1
Introduction
Corpus linguistics comes of age Jan Svartvik	7
Historical conspectus
Language corpora B.C. W. Nelson Francis	17
Theoretical issues
"Corpus linguistics" or "Computer-aided armchair linguistics" Charles J. Fillmore	35
Language as system and language as instance: The corpus as a theoretical construct M.A.K Halliday	61
The importance of corpus linguistics to understanding the nature of language Wallace Chafe	79
Comments by Christian Mair	98
Corpora and theories of linguistic performance Geoffrey Leech	105
Comments by Bengt Sigurd	123
Corpus design and development
Design principles in the transcription of spoken discourse Jane A. Edwards	129
Comments by Gösta Bruce	145
Modern Swedish text corpora Martin Gellerstam	149
Comments by Gunnel Engwall	164
A new corpus of English: ICE Sidney Greenbaum	171
Comments by Jan Aarts	180
The diachronic corpus as a window to the history of English Matti Rissanen	185
Comments by Gunnel Tottie	206
Exploration and application of corpora
Using computer-based text corpora to analyze the referential strategies of spoken and written texts Douglas Biber	213
Comments by Bengt Altenberg	253
Rationality in everyday talk: From process to system Ruquiya Hasan	257
Comments by Donald Hindle	308
Using corpus data in the Swedish Academy grammar Staffan Hellberg	311
Comments by Stig Johansson	332
Preferred ways of putting things with implications for language teaching Graeme Kennedy	335
Comments by Göran Kjellmer	374
The automatic analysis of corpora John M Sinclair	379
Comments by Fred Karlsson	398
The odd couple: The linguist and the software engineer. The struggle for high quality computerized language aids Henry Kucera	401
Comments by Magnus Ljung	421
Probabilistic parsing Geoffrey Sampson	425
Comments by Benny Brodda	448
Postscript
On corpus principles and design Randolph Quirk	457
Afterword	471
Personal names index	475
Subject index	481