Corpus Linguistics and the Web

by Marianne Hundt (Editor), Nadja Nesselhauf (Editor), Anke Lüdeling (Contributor)

Using the Web as Corpus is one of the recent challenges for corpus linguistics. This volume presents a current state-of-the-arts discussion of the topic. The articles address practical problems such as suitable linguistic search tools for accessing the www, the question of register variation, or they probe into methods for culling data from the web. The book also offers a wide range of case studies, covering morphology, syntax, lexis, as well as synchronic and diachronic variation in English. These case studies make use of the two approaches to the www in corpus linguistics - web-as-corpus and web-for-corpus-building. The case studies demonstrate that web data can provide useful additional evidence for a broad range of research questions. Marianne HUNDT, Nadja NESSELHAUF and Carolin Corpus linguistics and the web Accessing the web as Anke LUEDELING, Stefan EVERT and Marco Using web data for linguistic purposes William H. Concordancing the promise and problems, tools and techniques Antoinette RENOUF, Andrew KEHOE and Jayeeta an integrated system for web text search Compiling corpora from the Sebastian From webpage to the CNN transcripts Claudia Constructing a corpus from the message boards Douglas BIBER and Jerry Towards a taxonomy of web registers and text a multidimensional analysis Critical Geoffrey New resources, or just better old ones? The Holy Grail of representativeness Graeme An under-exploited using the BNC for exploring the nature of language learning Language variation and Anette Exploring constructions on the a case study Günter Determinants of grammatical variation in English and the formation / confirmation of linguistic hypotheses by means of internet data Britta Recalcitrant problems of comparative alternation and new insi

Genres: Linguistics

305 pages, Hardcover

First published December 20, 2006