RE: [Corpora-List] you vs. contractions

From: Adam Kilgarriff (adam@lexmasterclass.com)
Date: Wed Jul 20 2005 - 12:06:49 MET DST

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    Przemek,

     

     
    <http://www.sketchengine.co.uk/bnc/run.cgi/view?q=q%22you%22+%22are%22;corpn
    ame=BNC&refs=%3Dbncdoc.id> 21497 hits, 1075 pages such as the below, of
    "you are" available at the Word Sketch Engine. http://www.sketchengine.co.uk
    <http://www.sketchengine.co.uk/>

     

    Depending on your mail reader, you can hit the number and go straight to the
    search result. You'll need a WSE username and password, available by return
    of email at the URL above.

     

    Any moderately formal registers that use "you" (eg official leaflets) will
    not use contractions.

     

    Best,

     

    Adam

     

    -----Original Message-----
    From: owner-corpora@lists.uib.no[mailto:owner-corpora@lists.uib.no] On
    Behalf Of Przemek Kaszubski
    Sent: 19 July 2005 17:59
    To: CORPORA@hd.uib.no
    Subject: [Corpora-List] you vs. contractions

     

    Dear List Members,

     

    Are there any registers/genres in English in which the pronoun "you"

    co-occurs (textually) with fully written rather than contracted forms? I

    tried to extract such texts from the BNC using the SARA interface but

    could not. If anyone can point to relevant research or help with

    extraction, I'd be most grateful.

     

    Thanks!

     

    Przemek

      

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