Corpus-based Studies in English: Papers from the Seventeenth International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora (ICAME 17) Stockholm, May 15-19, 1996Magnus Ljung Rodopi, 1997 - 388 pages Corpus-based Studies in English contains selected papers from the seventeenth International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora (ICAME 17). The topics include parsing and annotation of corpora, discourse studies, lexicography, translation studies, parallel corpora, language variation and change, national varieties, methodology and English language teaching. The papers on parsing and annotation include discussions of the treatment of irregular forms, semantic/pragmatic labels in air traffic control, a comparison of tagging systems and a presentation of T-tag lexicon construction. The papers on discourse and lexicography include a study of like as a discourse marker, thesaural relations and the lexicalisation of NPs. In translation studies one paper discusses explicitness as a universal feature of translation and the paper on parallel corpora contrasts English and Norwegian. Many papers deal with variation and change; here we find a discussions of dialogue vs. non-dialogue in modern English fiction and an account of verbal disputes in adolescent English; the historical studies deal with e.g. text type evolution, multi-verb words, normalization in Middle English prose and modalities in Early Modern English. The methodology papers discuss the use in corpus analysis of inferential statistics, probabilistic approaches to anaphora resolution and multi-method approaches to data. The ELT paper compares the use of the progressive in native and non-native compositions. |
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They like wanna see like how we talk and all that | 37 |
A century in the life of multiword verbs | 69 |
A largescale corpus system for identifying thesaural relations | 87 |
Syntactic characteristics of dialogue and nondialogue sentences | 101 |
A sociolinguistic investigation of variation in | 119 |
Has British English been catching up with American English in | 135 |
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adverbial American English analysis anaphor annotation antecedent British chronicles collocates combinations constraint contain context corpora corpus linguistics database dialogue Dictionary discourse marker discourse topic domain Early Modern English elements elicitation epistemic example explicit Figure Finland-Swedish FLOB forms free constructions frequency Frown function grammar grammaticalisation groups instance kiasu Lampeter Corpus lexical items lexicalised expressions London marked means Middle English modality multi-word normalization Norwegian noun phrase nyms occur P1-constructions paper parsing part-of-speech tags patterns phrasal verbs plural nouns possible prepositional present progressive pronoun prose References relative clause reported utterances retrieval RPDU s-genitives sample segment selected semantic sentences significant Singapore singular speakers speech recognition spoken standard residual statistical structure subcorpora subcorpus subject complements subsegment syntactic syntax T-tag Table text types tokens translation variation word order zero relatives
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Page 17 - Baker (l993: 243) defines universals of translation as "features that typically occur in translated text rather than original utterances and which are not the result of interference from specific linguistic systems".
Page 27 - The process of interpretation performed by the translator on the source text might lead to a TL text which is more redundant than the SL text. This redundancy can be expressed by a rise in the level of cohesive explicitness in the TL text. This argument may be stated as "the explicitation hypothesis", which postulates an observed cohesive explicitness from SL to TL texts regardless of the increase traceable to differences between the two linguistic...
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