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Roberge, Yves – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
Poplack, Zentz and Dion (PZD; Poplack, Zentz & Dion, 2011, this issue) examine the often unquestioned assumption that the existence of preposition stranding (PS) in Canadian French is linked to the presence of a contact situation with English in the North American context. Although this issue has been the topic of previous research from a…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Speech, Form Classes (Languages), French
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Owen, Charles – Applied Linguistics, 1993
The current status of corpus-based lexico-grammar is assessed. Particular reference is to the one substantial descriptive grammar of English to have made use of the new computational techniques, the Collins COBUILD English Grammar. (39 references) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, English, Foreign Countries, Grammar
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Arnold, Jennifer E.; Wasow, Thomas; Losongco, Anthony; Ginstrom, Ryan – Language, 2000
Through corpus analysis and experimentation, this article demonstrates that both grammatical complexity (heaviness) and discourse status (newness) simultaneously and independently influence word order in two English constructions. Argues that heavy and new constituents facilitate the processes of planning and production. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computational Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, English
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Conrad, S. M. – System, 1999
Introduces the fundamental characteristics of corpus-based research and illustrates such research with a study of a complex grammatical feature in English: linking adverbials (i.e., connecting expressions such as "therefore" and "in other words"). Shows that corpus-based research is useful even with features that cannot be…
Descriptors: Adverbs, Computational Linguistics, Computer Uses in Education, English