English Corpus Linguistics: An Introduction

by Charles F. Meyer and Marian Barry

Book Overview

English Corpus Linguistics is a step-by-step guide to creating and analyzing linguistic corpora. It begins with a discussion of the role that corpus linguistics plays in linguistic theory, demonstrating that corpora have proven to be very useful resources for linguists who believe that their theories and descriptions of English should be based on real rather than contrived data. Charles F. Meyer goes on to describe how to plan the creation of a corpus,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052100490X
• ISBN13: 9780521004909
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.7" x 9.6"