Ring Low <mlow@acsu.buffalo.edu> writes:
> I agree that using Google to conduct linguistic studies has gotten more
> and more difficult since then, as the design of the search engine has
> been changing due to commercial reasons. We do need a search engine
> design specically for linguistic studies.
A few people wrote me to suggest that this might be a good opportunity
to mention the Linguist's Search Engine (http://lse.umiacs.umd.edu/).
And it is, assuming we carefully distinguish between linguistic
studies that do and do not rely on automatic counting. A great deal
of linguistic insight can be gained by doing linguistically informed
searches, and then looking at the data with the same methodological
caveats that linguists must traditionally heed: you need to be sure
the data comes from a native speaker, that the word (or construction,
or sentence) is being used in the intended meaning, that the context
is not exercising some unusual influence, etc.
Philip
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