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Liu, Dilin – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2011
This study uses the Corpus of Contemporary American English and the British National Corpus as data and Biber, Johansson, Leech, Conrad, and Finegan's (1999) and Gardner and Davies' (2007) informative studies as a starting point and reference. The study offers a cross-English variety and cross-register examination of the use of English phrasal…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Verbs, North American English, Computational Linguistics
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Greenbaum, Sidney – World Englishes, 1990
Discusses the development and progress of an international corpus of English (ICE) containing a regional corpora sampling of the standard varieties of English in countries where it is a first language, and the national varieties in countries where it is an official additional language. (GLR)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computational Linguistics, Data Collection, English
Francis, W. N. – 1975
The paper investigates the problems of assembling, describing and computerizing corpora, defined as collections of "texts assumed to be representative of a given language, dialect or other subject of a language, to be used for linguistic analysis." Specific reference is made to the formation of the Brown Standard Corpus. The formation of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computational Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, Data Collection