Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Message from the President 1
4. Center for corpus-based linguistics and language education 3
5. Introduction 7
6. On the scope of linguistics: Data, intuitions, corpora 25
7. Education and the enforcement of standard English 53
8. Variability and invariability in learner language: A corpus-based approach 67
9. Lexical variations in "Singapore English": Linguistic description and language education 83
10. Computer-mediated language and corpus linguistics 103
11. Making a list of essential phrasal verbs based on large corpora and phrasal verb dictionaries 121
12. Generation of word profiles for large German corpora 141
13. Modeling change: A historical sociolinguistics perspective on French negation 159
14. Phonetic input, phonological categories and orthographic representations: A psycholinguistic perspective on why language education needs oral corpora. The case of French-Japanese interphonology development 179
15. Language choice of bilingual federal public servants in Canada: With an emphasis on their perception of passive bilingualism 201
16. Lexical variation of urban Spanish 223
17. Palatal graphemes in a medieval Spanish biblical text: A corpus analysis of «i, j, y» in Genesis, Biblia de Alba 239
18. Argument structure, animacy, syntax and semantics of passivization in Turkish: A corpus-based approach 259
19. A corpus-driven analysis of -r dropping in spoken Turkish 281
20. The use of -ag- in colloquial Swahili in Tanzania: Report of a preliminary survey conducted in 2008 299
21. A study on the pragmatic functions of ialah and adalah in Malay 315
22. Aspects of style-shifting in Japanese 339
23. Necessity of corpora for Japanese dialectology: From the viewpoints of dialect contact and the consciousness of dialect inexistence 361
24. Mitigation strategies in expressions of disagreement adopted by intermediate learners of Japanese 379
25. Index of proper nouns 393
26. Index of subjects 396
27. Contributors 399