>
> I find it fascinating that as soon as we find a linguistic
> topic which sparks the interest of everyone here, the
> discussion suddenly makes hardly any reference to corpora.
> Why are suddenly anecdotes, intuitions, folk theories and
> made-up examples preferable to consulting corpora?
>
> It's a serious question. It seems to me reasonable to bring
> in these other factors and pieces of evidence to inform a
> discussion about corpus linguistics, but why is almost no-one
> consulting a corpus, or consulting research papers based on
> corpora? Lack of resources? Lack of tools?
> Don't think that use of corpora is appropriate for this question?
>
It's true that a lot of the responses have been of an anecdotal nature,
but a few have also referred to corpora, especially I notice to REFUTE
anecdotal claims. This seems to be the heritage of corpus linguistics,
which I daresay is regrettable.
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