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Using corpora to explore linguistic variation

Title
Using corpora to explore linguistic variation / edited by Randi Reppen, Susan M. Fitzmaurice, Douglas Biber.
Publication
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©2002.

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Additional Authors
  • Reppen, Randi.
  • Fitzmaurice, Susan M.
  • Biber, Douglas.
Description
xi, 274 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Studies in corpus linguistics, 1388-0373 ; v. 9
Uniform Title
Studies in corpus linguistics ; v. 9.
Subject
  • Language and languages > Variation > Data processing
  • Language and languages
  • Language
  • languages (study discipline)
  • Language and languages
  • Language and languages > Variation > Data processing
  • Englisch
  • Korpus Linguistik
  • Sprachvariante
  • Sprachstatistik
  • Fachsprache
  • Wissenschaftssprache
  • Sprachschichtung
  • Corpuslinguïstiek
  • Taalvariatie
  • Engels
  • Linguística (variação)
  • Language and languages > Variation
  • Englisch
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Pt. 1. Exploring variation in the use of linguistic features: 1. Cross-disciplinary comparisons of hedging: some findings from the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English / Deanna Poos & Rita Simpson -- 2. Would as a hedging device in an Irish context: an intra-varietal comparison of institutionalised spoken interaction / Fiona Farr & Anne O'Keefe -- 3. Good listenership made plain: British and American non-minimal response tokens in everyday conversation / Michael McCarthy -- 4. Variation in the distribution of modal verbs in the British National Corpus / Graeme Kennedy -- 5. Strong modality and negation in Russian / Ferdinand de Haan -- 6. Formulaic language in English academic writing: a corpus-based study of the formal and functional variation of a lexical phrase in different academic disciplines / David Oakey -- 7. Lexical bundles in Freshman composition / Viviana Cortes -- 8 Pseudo-titles in the press genre of various components of the International Corpus of English / Charles F. Meyer -- 9. Pattern grammar, language teaching, and linguistic variation: applications of a corpus-driven grammar / Susan Hanston -- Pt. 2. Exploring dialect or register variation: 10. Syntactic features of Indian English: an examination of written Indian English / Chandrika K. Rogers (Balasubramanian) -- 11. Variation in academic lectures: interactivity and level of instruction / Eniko Csomay -- Pt. 3. Exploring historical variation: 12. The textual resolution of structural ambiguity in eighteenth-century English: a corpus linguistic study of patterns of negation / Susan M. Fitzmaurice -- 13. Investigating register variation in nineteenth-century English: a multi-dimensional comparison / Christer Eisler.
ISBN
  • 1588112837
  • 9781588112835
  • 9027222797
  • 9789027222794
LCCN
2002026160
OCLC
  • ocm50124960
  • 50124960
  • SCSB-1280138
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library