LINGUIST List 21.2842 Thu Jul 08 2010 FYI: Database of Possessive NPs in English and Swedish Editor for this issue: Rachelle Felzien <rachellelinguistlist.org> To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.    David Denison, Database of Possessive NPs in English and Swedish Message 1: Database of Possessive NPs in English and Swedish Date: 06-Jul-2010 From: David Denison <david.denisonmanchester.ac.uk> Subject: Database of Possessive NPs in English and Swedish E-mail this message to a friend The project "Germanic possessive -'s: an empirical, historical and theoretical study" announces the release of a searchable online database of possessive constructions in English and Swedish, freely available to the research community from the project web page: http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/research/projects/germanic-possessive-s/ The database contains the possessive constructions found in two corpora of spoken language: * British English: the spoken component of the British National Corpus (c. 10 million words) * Swedish: the Gothenburg Spoken Language Corpus (c. 1.2 million words) There are some 44,000 records of possessive NPs, searchable according to a wide range of criteria. Results can be sorted, viewed on-screen in complete sentences, or downloaded. The British data can be viewed with or without the BNC word class tags (and there are hyperlinks to BNCweb for users of that interface). There is an on-screen description and contextual help. Web programming is by Christopher White. The project ran 2006-9, supported by the AHRC, with principal investigators Kersti Börjars and David Denison and research associate Alan Scott. See the project site for further information and a list of publications. Linguistic Field(s): Syntax; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Typology Subject Language(s): English (eng)                             Swedish (swe) Language Family(ies): Germanic Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 08-Jul-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.