| John Sinclair has been Professor of Modern English Language at the University of Birmingham since 1965. He is Founding Editor-in-Chief of Cobuild. His current work centres on promoting the use of large corpora of natural languages, in particular the design of computer software for storage, access, and retrieval of data. Collocation, and the interdependence of lexis and grammar, are areas of personal research. He also maintains an interest in disc.. << 查看详细 |
| the author and series editors . foreword introduction 1 corpus creation introduction who should design a corpus? a general corpus outline of corpus creation electronic form permissions design spoken and written language quasi-speech formal and literary language typicality design criteria period overall size sample size whole documents .minimal criteria provisional corpus processing clean-text policy basic provision database maintenance different kinds of corpora sample corpora monitor corpora features of a monitor corpus 2 basic text processing introduction input words and word-forms text and vocabulary frequency list--first occurrence frequency list--alphabetical frequency list--frequency order word frequency profiles concordances kwic (key word in context) longer environments ordering within concordances concordance processing text analysis statistics selective information intermediate categories new approaches 3 the evidence of usage introduction existing descriptions native-speaker introspections language in use word-forms and lemmas concordances concordance evidence: an example sense 1: to refuse other senses 4 sense and structure in lexis introduction evidence: main senses evidence: minor senses counter-examples: general counter-examples: first sense yield with an object yielding with an object yielded with an object descriptive and prescriptive study counter-examples: second and third senses yield as transitive verb doubtful cases first minor sense conclusion 5 words and phrases introduction phrasal verbs some numerical facts combinations of set + particle the combination set in nouns verbs sense (i) sense (ii) .. minor senses sundry idioms set in as a phrasal verb word-forms subjects a dictionary entry other phrasal verbs with set conclusion 6 the meeting of lexis and grammar introduction what is said about of a corpus view of of frequency of outside nominal groups of in nominal groups conventional measures less conventional measures the status of headword focus nouns focus on a part focus on a specialized part focus on a component, aspect, or attribute support metaphor double-headed nominal groups titles nominalizations modification of first noun (n1) mopping up superlative adjectives fixed phrases miscellaneous evaluation analysis of examples in table 1 non-nominal instances of of nominal group conclusion 7 evaluating instances introduction throw away your evidence text and language meaning and structure procedure findings conclusion 8 collocation introduction two models of interpretation the open-choice principle the idiom principle evidence from long texts collocation collocation of back analysis of the collocational pattern of back upward collocates: back downward collocates: back conclusion 9 words about words introduction structure variation in co-text about the word itself what people mean structure: verb explanations animate subjects inanimate subjects mixed subjects operators summary analysis of the second part first chunk second chunk discussion applications inferences and implications conclusion summing up appendix i appendix ii appendix iii bibliography glossary index ... |
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