Opening address

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. Preface V
3. Symposium participants XI
4. Opening address 1
5. Introduction
6. Corpus linguistics comes of age 7
7. Historical conspectus
8. Language corpora B.C. 17
9. Theoretical issues
10. "Corpus linguistics" or "Computer-aided armchair linguistics" 35
11. Language as system and language as instance: The corpus as a theoretical construct 61
12. The importance of corpus linguistics to understanding the nature of language 79
13. Corpora and theories of linguistic performance 105
14. Corpus design and development
15. Design principles in the transcription of spoken discourse 129
16. Modern Swedish text corpora 149
17. A new corpus of English: ICE 171
18. The diachronic corpus as a window to the history of English 185
19. Exploration and application of corpora
20. Using computer-based text corpora to analyze the referential strategies of spoken and written texts 213
21. Rationality in everyday talk: From process to system 257
22. Using corpus data in the Swedish Academy grammar 311
23. Preferred ways of putting things with implications for language teaching 335
24. The automatic analysis of corpora 379
25. The odd couple: The linguist and the software engineer. The struggle for high quality computerized language aids. 401
26. Probabilistic parsing 425
27. Postscript
28. On corpus principles and design 457
29. Afterword 471
30. Index of personal names 475
31. Subject index 481
32. 488 488