[Corpora-List] Special issue of ZAA: The Scope and Limits of Corpus Linguistics...

From: Ute Römer (ute.roemer@engsem.uni-hannover.de)
Date: Sun Aug 20 2006 - 12:45:12 MET DST

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    Dear all,

    On behalf of Volker Gast (FU Berlin), I would like to announce the
    publication of a special issue of the journal Zeitschrift aus Anglistik und
    Amerikanistik - A Quarterly of Language, Literature and Culture (ZAA) that
    might be of interest to some of you.

    The title of the issue (54,2) is "The Scope and Limits of Corpus Linguistics
    - Empiricism in the Description and Analysis of English". It can be ordered
    directly from the publisher's website http://www.koenigshausen-neumann.de
    (links "Webshop" and "Stichwortsuche") for 13 Euros plus p&p.

    Here is the table of contents of the issue (a pdf of the editorial can be
    found at http://www.zaa.koenigshausen-neumann.de/aktuell.htm):

    Editorial V

    Artikel

    VOLKER GAST
    Introduction 113

    UTE RÖMER
    Pedagogical Applications of Corpora: Some Reflections on the Current Scope
    and a Wish List for Future Developments 121

    NORBERT SCHLÜTER
    How Reliable are the Results? Comparing Corpus-Based Studies of the Present
    Perfect 135

    ILKA MINDT
    Distributional Data and Grammatical Structures: The Case of So-Called
    ‘Subject
    Extraposition’ 149

    VOLKER GAST
    The Distribution of Also and Too: A Preliminary Corpus Study 163

    STEFAN EVERT
    How Random is a Corpus? The Library Metaphor 177

    STEFAN TH. GRIES
    Some Proposals towards a More Rigorous Corpus Linguistics 191

    WILLEM HOLLMANN AND ANNA SIEWIERSKA
    Corpora and (the Need for) Other Methods in a Study of Lancashire Dialect
    203

    ANKE LÜDELING
    Using Corpora in the Calculation of Language Relationships 217

    Best wishes... Ute

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    Dr. Ute Römer
    English Department
    Leibniz University of Hanover
    Königsworther Platz 1
    30167 Hannover
    Germany
     
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