Foreword

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Series editor’s introduction xi
4. Foreword xiii
5. Preface xv
6. Part 1
7. 1. Introducing ICE-GB 2
8. 2. The ICE-GB grammar 22
9. Part 2
10. 3. Introducing the ICE corpus utility program (ICECUP) 70
11. 4. Browsing the corpus 85
12. 5. Fuzzy tree fragments and text queries 117
13. 6. Combining queries 177
14. 7. Advanced facilities in ICECUP 3.1 203
15. Part 3
16. 8. Case studies using ICE-GB 233
17. 9. Principles of experimental design with a parsed corpus 257
18. Part 4
19. 10. Future prospects 285
20. References 301
21. Appendix 1. ICE text categories and codes 307
22. Appendix 2. Sources of ICE-GB texts 309
23. Appendix 3. Bibliographical and biographical variables 332
24. Appendix 4. Structural markup symbols 333
25. Appendix 5. A quick reference guide to the ice grammar 334
26. Appendix 6. Special characters used in ICE-GB 337
27. Index 338