Corpus Linguistics: Readings in a Widening Discipline

by Geoffrey Sampson

Corpus Linguistics seeks to provide a comprehensive sampling of real-life usage in a given language, and to use these empirical data to test language hypotheses. Modern corpus linguistics began fifty years ago, but the subject has seen explosive growth since the early 1990s. These days corpora are being used to advance virtually every aspect of language study, from computer processing techniques such as machine translation, to literary stylistics,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082648803X
• ISBN13: 9780826488039
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 542 Pages
• Weight: 2.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.2" x 9.7"