This volume will be of particular interest to readers interested in expanding the applications of corpus linguistics techniques through new tools and approaches. The text includes selected papers from the Fifth North American Symposium, hosted by the Linguistics Department at Montclair State University in Montclair New Jersey in May 2004. The symposium papers represented several areas of corpus studies including language development, syntactic analysis, pragmatics and discourse, language change, register variation, corpus creation and annotation, and practical applications of corpus work, primarily in language teaching, but also in medical training and machine translation. A common thread through most of the papers was the use of corpora to study domains longer than the word. Not surprisingly, fully half of the papers deal with the computational tools and linguistic strategies needed to search for and analyze these longer spans of language while most of the remaining papers examine particular syntactic and rhetorical properties of one or more corpora.

Contents Preface Analysis Tools and Corpus Annotation Leslie Barrett, David F. Greenberg, and Mark Schwartz: A Syntactic Feature Counting Method for Selecting Machine Translation Training Corpora Angus B. Grieve-Smith: The Envelope of Variation in Multidimensional Register and Genre Analyses Paul Deane and Derrick Higgins: Using Singular-Value Decomposition on Local Word Contexts to Derive a Measure of Constructional Similarity Sebastian Van Delden: Problematic Syntactic Patterns Mark Davies: Towards a Comprehensive Survey of Register-based Variation in Spanish Syntax Gregory Garretson and Mary Catherine O'Connor: Between the Humanist and the Modernist: Semi-automated Analysis of Linguistic Corpora Carson Maynard and Sheryl Leicher: Pragmatic Annotation of an Academic Spoken Corpus for Pedagogical Purposes María José García Vizcaino: Using Oral Corpora in Contrastive Studies of Linguistic Politeness Corpus Applications: Pedagogy and Linguistic Analysis Boyd Davis and Lisa Russell-Pinson: One Corpus, Two Contexts: Intersections of Content-Area Teacher Training and Medical Education Margrit V. Zinggeler: "GRIMMATIK:" German Grammar through the Magic of the Brothers Grimm Fairytales and the Online Grimm Corpus Pieter De Haan and Kees Van Esch: Assessing the Development of Foreign Language Writing Skills: Syntactic and Lexical Features JoAnne Neff, Francisco Ballesteros, Emma Dafouz, Francisco Martinez, Juan-Pedro Rica, Mercedes Diez and Rosa Prieto: A Contrastive Functional Analysis of Errors in Spanish EFL University Writers' Argumentative Texts: a Corpus-based Study Wasima Shehzad: How to End an Introduction in a Computer Science Article: A Corpus-based Approach Alexander Murzaku: Does Albanian have a Third Person Personal Pronoun? Let's have a Look at the Corpus… Christine Johansson: The Use of Relativizers across Speaker Roles and Gender: Explorations in 19th-century Trials, Drama and Letters