English corpus linguistics in Japan
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English corpus linguistics in Japan
(Language and computers : studies in practical linguistics, no 38)
Rodopi, 2002
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
The existence of corpus-based linguistic research in Japan has until now mainly been hidden from the view of overseas researchers - partly by the language barrier, and partly by the continuing dominance of generative grammar in Japan. At last, this volume lifts the veil to reveal the current condition of corpus-based research in Japan.
English Corpus Linguistics in Japan contains a collection of twenty papers written by Japanese linguists, reflecting the state of art in English corpus linguistics in Japan. The volume covers an impressively wide range, showcasing the diversity and creativity of corpus-based research in this country, from studies drawing on the 'old faithful' Brown and LOB Corpora as well as the more recent Frown, FLOB, the Bank of English and the British National Corpus to studies based on more specific historical, literary, spoken, and learner corpora; from investigations of major levels of language description, including prosody, lexis, morphology, syntax, and semantics to investigations of language variation; from explorations of single variables to those of multivariant dimensions; and from pedagogical applications to software applications. The papers are grouped into four sections: 1) Corpus-based studies of contemporary English, 2) Historical and diachronic studies of English, 3) English corpora and English language teaching, 4) Software for analyzing corpora.
This volume will inspire still further corpus explorations in the future both in Japan and abroad.
Table of Contents
Geoffrey Leech: Foreword
Toshio Saito, Junsaku Nakamura and Shunji Yamazaki: Preface
I. Corpus-Based Studies in Contemporary English
Atsuko Furuta Umesaki: Syntactic Boundaries and Prosodic Features in English
Junsaku Nakamura: A Galaxy of Words: Structures Based upon Distributions of Verbs, Nouns and Adjectives in the LOB Corpus
Takeshi Okada: Conjugational Patterns and Text Categories in the LOB Corpus
Shunji Yamazaki: Distribution of Frequent Adjectives in the Wellington Corpus of Written New Zealand English
Teruhiko Fukaya: On Viewing Reflexives in the Bank of English: Their Distribution and Function
Toshihiko Kubota: Lexical Richness and Semantic Loading Capacity of Nouns
Hideshi Takaie: A Trap in Corpus Linguistics: The Gap between Corpus-based Analysis and Intuition-based Analysis
Mitsumi Uchida: From Participles to Conjunctions: A Parallel Corpus Study of Grammaticalization in English and French
II. Historical and Diachronic Studies of English
Masahiro Hori: Collocational Patterns of -ly Manner Adverbs in Dickens
Tomoji Tabata: Investigating Stylistic Variation in Dickens through Correspondence Analysis of Word-Class Distribution
Hideo Nishimura: Degree Adverbs in the Corpus of Early English Correspondence Sampler
Michio Hosaka: Adverbial Positions and Verb Movement in Middle English and Early Modern English
Yoko Iyeiri: Development of Any from Middle English to Early Modern English: A Study Using the Helsinki Corpus of English Texts
Norihiko Otsu: On the Absence of the Conjunction That in Late Middle English
Yoshiyuki Nakao: The Semantics of Chaucer's Moot/Moste and Shal/Sholde: Conditional Elements and Degrees of Their Quantifiability
Satoru Tsukamoto: Syntactic Annotation and Text Classification: A Study Using the Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Middle English
Hideki Watanabe: Problems with the Electronic OED2 as a Database of Linguistic
Terms
III. English Corpora and English Language Teaching
Kojiro Asao: Communication Strategies of EFL Learners: A Corpus-based Approach
Masatoshi Sugiura: Collocational Knowledge of L2 Learners of English: A Case Study of Japanese Learners
IV. Software for Analyzing Corpora
Satoru Tsukamoto: KWIC Concordance for Windows: Easy Access to Corpora
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