Introduction: Corpus linguistics and the Nordic languages

English Corpus Linguistics An Introduction

Draft Introduction: Corpus linguistics: past and present

I am greatly honoured to be invited by his former PhD students to contribute to this volume of papers dedicated to Professor Yang Huizhong. Unlike many other contributors to this volume, my first encounter with Professor Yang was not as his student. We met some twenty years ago at the University of Birmingham, where I was managing the Cobuild corpus-based lexicographic project (Renouf, 1987a), ...

The Nordic Dialect Corpus

In this paper, we describe the Nordic Dialect Corpus, which has recently been completed. The corpus has a variety of features that combined makes it an advanced tool for language researchers. These features include: Linguistic contents (dialects from five closely related languages), annotation (tagging and two types of transcription), search interface (advanced possibilities for combining a lar...

Lexicography and Corpus Linguistics

Logic, languages and linguistics

The talk includes: ¯ a brief survey of the literature on descriptive complexity results; this journey takes us from regular to context-sensitive languages, ¯ a brief survey of the complexity of (realistic) linguistic formalisms; this journey takes us from context-sensitive grammars to fragments of richer grammars, ¯ a discussion of generative and model-theoretic means to arrive at more adequate...