LINGUIST List 17.2881

Wed Oct 04 2006

Books: Text/Corpus Linguistics: McEnery, Wilson, Rayson (Eds)

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Directory         1.    Ulrich Lueders, A Rainbow of Corpora: McEnery, Wilson, Rayson (Eds)
Message 1: A Rainbow of Corpora: McEnery, Wilson, Rayson (Eds)
Date: 26-Sep-2006
From: Ulrich Lueders <lincom.europat-online.de>
Subject: A Rainbow of Corpora: McEnery, Wilson, Rayson (Eds)


Title: A Rainbow of Corpora Subtitle: Corpus Linguistics and the Languages of the World Series Title: Linguistics Edition 40 Published: 2006 Publisher: Lincom GmbH
                http://www.lincom.at

Editor: TONY MCENERY Editor: Andrew Wilson Editor: Paul Rayson Paperback: ISBN: 3895868728 Pages: 166 Price: Europe EURO 69.50
Abstract:

The aim of this volume is to showcase the range of corpus-based linguisticresearch currently being carried out on languages other than English.The papers included report on work carried out on Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech,Dutch, French, German, Biblical Greek, Biblical Hebrew, Medieval Irish,Korean, Romanian and Swedish, including a number of regional and socialvariants. They also address a range of areas as diverse as corpus design,corpus annotation, register analysis, syntax, and quantitative linguistics.

The papers in this volume will leave the reader in no doubt thatcorpus-based research is now being conducted for a whole "rainbow oflanguages".

Contents

1. The PARIS 7 annotated corpus for French: some experimental resultsAnne Abeillé, Lionel Clément, Alexandra Kinyon, François Toussenel

2. Lexical frequency of contemporary Canadian French based on a large corpusMartin Beaudoin and Michel Simard

3. The Corpus of Electronic Texts: A digital lexicon of Medieval Irish andan Irish prosopographyBeatrix Färber

4. A corpus of written Italian: a defined and a dynamic model R. RossiniFavretti, F. Tamburini and C. De Santis

5. A reusable corpus needs syntactic annotations: Prague Dependency TreebankEva Hajičová and Petr Sgall

6. Variation across Korean text registersBeom-mo Kang, Hung-gyu Kim and Myung-hoe Huh

7. A tagset for the morphosyntactic tagging of ArabicShereen Khoja, Roger Garside and Gerry Knowles

Linguistic Field(s): Text/Corpus Linguistics
Subject Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb)                             Bulgarian (bul)                             Czech (ces)                             Dutch (nld)                             French (fra)                             German, Standard (deu)                             Greek (ell)                             Hebrew (heb)                             Korean (kor)                             Romanian (ron)                             Swedish (swe)
Written In: English (eng )

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