Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Magnus Ljung -- Preface / Magnus Ljung -- Sentence openings in English and Norwegian / Hilde HasselgÃ¥rd -- Explicitness as a universal feature of translation / Josef Schmied and Hildegard Schäffler -- They like wanna see like how we talk and all that . The use of like as a multifunctional discourse marker in London teenage speech / Gisle Andersen -- The grammatical freedom of lexicaliÅŸed noun phrases / Henk Barkema -- A Century in the Life of Multi-Word Verbs / Claudia Claridge -- A Large-scale Corpus System for Identifying Thesaural Relations / Alex Collier and Mike Pacey -- Syntactic characteristics of dialogue and non-dialogue sentences infiction writing / Pieler de Haan -- Conflict talk: A comparison of the verbal disputes between adolescent females in two corpora / Ingrid Kristine Hasund and Anna-Brita Stenström -- Has BrE Been Catching Up with AmE Over the Past Thirty Years? / Marianne Hundt -- Text type evolution and diachronic corpora: Historical writing in the history of English / Thomas Kohnen -- Uses of Inferential Statistics in Corpus Studies / William A. Kretzschmar Jr. , Charles F. Meyer , and Dominique Ingegneri -- Automatic Retrieval of Zero Elements in a Computerised Corpus / Hans Martin Lehmann -- Parallel Corpora: A Real-Time Approach to the Study of Language Change in Progress / Christian Mair -- Normalization of Middle English prose: possibilities and limits / Manfred Markus -- Using corpus and experimental data: a multimethod approach / Inge de Mönnink -- Analysing the Singapore ICE corpus for lexicographic evidcence / Vincent B Y Ooi -- A probabilistic approach to anaphora resolution in dialogues in English / Marco Rocha -- Modalities of Early Modern English: No piece of cake / Rainer Siemund -- The Progressive in NS and NNS Student Compositions:Evidence from the International Corpus of Learner English / Tuija Virtanen -- On the Study of Discourse and Style Using the Techniques of Corpus Linguistics / Kay Wikberg -- Comparing tagging systems / Nancy Belmore -- Dictionaryless English Plural Noun Singularisation Using A Corpus-Based List of Irregular Forms / Paul R. Bowden , Peter Halstead , and Tony G. Rose -- The semantic/pragmatic annotation of an Air Traffic Control corpus for use in Speech Recognition / Gavin E Churcher , Eric S Atwell , and Clive Souter -- T-Tag lexicon construction and application in parsing / Hong Liang Qiao.

Corpus-based Studies in English contains selected papers from the seventeenth International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora (ICAME 17). The topics include parsing and annotation of corpora, discourse studies, lexicography, translation studies, parallel corpora, language variation and change, national varieties, methodology and English language teaching. The papers on parsing and annotation include discussions of the treatment of irregular forms, semantic/pragmatic labels in air traffic control, a comparison of tagging systems and a presentation of T-tag lexicon construction. The papers on discourse and lexicography include a study of like as a discourse marker, thesaural relations and the lexicalisation of NPs. In translation studies one paper discusses explicitness as a universal feature of translation and the paper on parallel corpora contrasts English and Norwegian. Many papers deal with variation and change; here we find a discussions of dialogue vs. non-dialogue in modern English fiction and an account of verbal disputes in adolescent English; the historical studies deal with e.g. text type evolution, multi-verb words, normalization in Middle English prose and modalities in Early Modern English. The methodology papers discuss the use in corpus analysis of inferential statistics, probabilistic approaches to anaphora resolution and multi-method approaches to data. The ELT paper compares the use of the progressive in native and non-native compositions.

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