Examining the Language of Advice-Giving: A Study of the Verb
... their data from the BNC which is a 100 million word corpus of spoken and written British English. This corpus was compiled between 1991 and consists of mostly written texts, but also contains spoken texts that have been transcribed. The written and spoken texts are drawn from a variety of sources so ...
... their data from the BNC which is a 100 million word corpus of spoken and written British English. This corpus was compiled between 1991 and consists of mostly written texts, but also contains spoken texts that have been transcribed. The written and spoken texts are drawn from a variety of sources so ...
Grammar Differences between British and American English
... This bachelor thesis focuses on differences occurring between American and British English grammar. For better clarity, the thesis is not divided into a theoretical and practical part, and therefore the practical part directly follows the theory. The very first part of the thesis outlines how Englis ...
... This bachelor thesis focuses on differences occurring between American and British English grammar. For better clarity, the thesis is not divided into a theoretical and practical part, and therefore the practical part directly follows the theory. The very first part of the thesis outlines how Englis ...
Building a Corpus in Linguistic Anthropology
... In anthropology and linguistics, the term corpus refers to a collection of data sets used to tackle a particular research question. This can be a collection of passive sentences used for a research on the passive of a certain language, or a collection of photos, interview recordings and their transc ...
... In anthropology and linguistics, the term corpus refers to a collection of data sets used to tackle a particular research question. This can be a collection of passive sentences used for a research on the passive of a certain language, or a collection of photos, interview recordings and their transc ...
homenaje a mervyn smale - Universidad de Granada
... The ICE-GB corpus is not very large (1 million words) and it comprises 500 texts (200 written and 300 spoken, belonging to different genres, each one of approximately 2000 words). All the material was collected between 1990-1993 and was produced by adults (18+ years) who were educated in the English ...
... The ICE-GB corpus is not very large (1 million words) and it comprises 500 texts (200 written and 300 spoken, belonging to different genres, each one of approximately 2000 words). All the material was collected between 1990-1993 and was produced by adults (18+ years) who were educated in the English ...
Symposium on Complementation
... The “into causative” (or transitive causative) construction (she talked them into staying, they wheedled her into paying for it) has been the focus of a number of studies during the last 10-15 years, and Juhani Rudanko has been the most active researcher (by far) on this topic during this time (e.g. ...
... The “into causative” (or transitive causative) construction (she talked them into staying, they wheedled her into paying for it) has been the focus of a number of studies during the last 10-15 years, and Juhani Rudanko has been the most active researcher (by far) on this topic during this time (e.g. ...
rtf-file - TU Chemnitz
... newspapers - i.e. reports on foreign and home news written by newspaper staff have been included in this corpus. There are several reasons for not analysing the whole content of these papers. Firstly, news reports have always been part of newspapers and are thus ideal for diachronic research. Second ...
... newspapers - i.e. reports on foreign and home news written by newspaper staff have been included in this corpus. There are several reasons for not analysing the whole content of these papers. Firstly, news reports have always been part of newspapers and are thus ideal for diachronic research. Second ...
Varying Language and Opposing Creed - Personal Homepages
... The volume, dedicated as a Festschrift to Professor Emeritus Charles Jones (University of Edinburgh), opens with an introduction of the editors, where they emphasize the need to focus on Late Modern English data in order to account for many changes which have shaped the English language as we know i ...
... The volume, dedicated as a Festschrift to Professor Emeritus Charles Jones (University of Edinburgh), opens with an introduction of the editors, where they emphasize the need to focus on Late Modern English data in order to account for many changes which have shaped the English language as we know i ...
The New General Service List: A Core Vocabulary for EFL Students
... The English Language has a surprisingly large number of words. Even if we count words like ACCEPT, ACCEPTS, ACCEPTING and ACCEPTABLE as part of the same “word family”, there are still more that 500 million words in English! Fortunately for teachers and students, language has built in redundancy, wit ...
... The English Language has a surprisingly large number of words. Even if we count words like ACCEPT, ACCEPTS, ACCEPTING and ACCEPTABLE as part of the same “word family”, there are still more that 500 million words in English! Fortunately for teachers and students, language has built in redundancy, wit ...
1. Introduction - Use of corpora in translation studies
... repeatedly in one text, which could potentially influence the interpretation of a concordance due to the style of a particular author or a specific usage in a given domain. WSE gives the possibility of avoiding this by taking a random sample of a specified size from the concordance lines. This is n ...
... repeatedly in one text, which could potentially influence the interpretation of a concordance due to the style of a particular author or a specific usage in a given domain. WSE gives the possibility of avoiding this by taking a random sample of a specified size from the concordance lines. This is n ...
