Re: [Corpora-List] Stubbs' analogy?

From: Sven.Hartrumpf@FernUni-Hagen.de
Date: Tue Dec 13 2005 - 20:51:47 MET

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    On 13 Dec 2005, Xiaotian Guo <garlickfred@gmail.com> wrote:

    > I remember Michael Stubbs once used an analogy in stressing the importance of the advent of corpora to linguists and the analogy is the creation of
    > telescope to astronauts. But I forgot the source. Could anybody direct me to the reference?

    http://www.uni-trier.de/uni/fb2/anglistik/Projekte/stubbs/pitcordr.htm
    (look for "telescope", section 3.6)

    I don't know whether there are more adequate references.

    Greetings
    Sven

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