Preface

Chapters in this book

1. i-iv i
2. Preface v
3. Contents vii
4. Part I. Corpus design and text encoding
5. The optimum corpus sample size? 3
6. Corpus sampling 21
7. International Corpus of English: Corpus design – problems and suggested solutions 33
8. The Northern Ireland Transcribed Corpus of Speech 65
9. Problems in the compilation of a corpus of standard Caribbean English: A pilot study 75
10. The Text Encoding Initiative: A progress report 97
11. Part II. Automated syntactic and semantic text analysis
12. Pinpointing problematic tagging decisions 111
13. Inferences and lexical relations 123
14. Developing a scheme for annotating text to show anaphoric relations 153
15. Information retrieval and corpora 191
16. Part III. Corpora in language description
17. Relative infinitives in spoken and written English 213
18. Who(m)? Case marking of wh-pronouns in written British and American English 231
19. Discourse category and text type classification: Procedural discourse in the Brown and the LOB corpora 247
20. Opaque and transparent features of Indian English 263
21. Computer analysis of spelling variants in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 277
22. Pitch contours and tones in the Lancaster/IBM spoken English corpus 289
23. What do you think of that: A pilot study of the phraseology of the core words of English 301
24. Sequences of spatial and temporal adverbials in spoken and written English 319
25. Grammatical or nativelike? 329
26. Collocation and bilingual text 345
27. Key Word Index 359
28. 369-370 369