Diachrony and Synchrony in English Corpus Linguistics

by Maurizio Gotti (Editor), Alejandro Alcaraz Sintes (Editor), Salvador Valera Hernández (Editor)

Overview

The book brings together current research on the description of English using a range of corpora. It consists of a foreword, a review of the diachronic studies and another of the synchronic studies, twelve research papers, and a subject index. Five of the papers are about diachronic description and seven are about synchronic description.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783034313261
Publisher:	Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	06/25/2014
Series:	Linguistic Insights: Studies in Language and Communication , #181
Pages:	393
Product dimensions:	5.91(w) x 8.86(h) x (d)

About the Author

Alejandro Alcaraz-Sintes (Casablanca, Morocco, 1959) is senior lecturer (tenured) at the University of Jaén.
Salvador Valera-Hernández (Jaén, Spain, 1967) is senior lecturer (tenured) at the University of Granada and teaches regularly at Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Slovakia.

Table of Contents

Contents: Alejandro Alcaraz-Sintes: Dictionary- and corpus-based research in historical linguistics – Nuria Calvo-Cortés: A corpus-based study of gradual meaning change in Late Modern English – Teresa Fanego: Dictionary-based corpus linguistics and beyond: developments in the expression of motion events in the history of English – María José López-Couso/Belén Méndez-Naya: The use of if as a declarative complementizer in English: theoretical and empirical considerations – Matti Rissanen: On English historical corpora, with notes on the development of adverbial connectives – Ondřej Tichý/Jan Čermák: Measuring typological syntheticity of English diachronically with the use of corpora – Salvador Valera-Hernández: Dictionary- and corpus-based research in applied and descriptive linguistics – Miguel-Ángel Benítez-Castro: Formal, syntactic, semantic and textual features of English shell nouns: a manual corpus-driven approach – Eduardo Coto-Villalibre: From prototypical to peripheral: the ‘get + Ven’ construction in contemporary spoken British English – Thomas Egan: Encoding ‘throughness’ in English and French – Beatriz Mato-Míguez: If you would like to lead: on the grammatical status of directive isolated if-clauses in spoken British English – Detmar Meurers/Julia Krivanek/Serhiy Bykh: On the automatic analysis of learner corpora. Native Language Identification as experimental testbed of language modelling between surface features and linguistic abstraction – Juan Santana-Lario: ‘Adjective + whether/if-clause’ constructions in English. An exploratory corpus-based study – Paul Thompson: Exploring Hoey’s notion of textual colligation in a corpus of student writing.

Preface

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