Corpus linguisticsâpast, present, future: A view from Oslo

Stig Johansson

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Corpus linguisticsâpast, present, future: A view from Oslo

In: English Corpora under Japanese Eyes

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004333758_002

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The paper gives an overview of developments in the use of corpora in English language research, from corpora before computers, through the small (from our present perspective) classical corpora, to the vast and varied collections that are now available. Special attention is paid to ICAME, the International Computer Archive of Modern English (now: the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English), which from its modest beginnings in 1977 has turned into a world-wide community of scholars active in the field. Some areas where there has been considerable achievement, and where there is a great potential for future work, are singled out: language variation, lexis, grammar, and contrastive linguistics. After about forty years of computer-corpus research, much has been achieved, but it is likely that we are only at the beginning of the era of corpus linguistics. If corpora are used with care and imagination, corpus studies have a bright future.

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English Corpora under Japanese Eyes

Series:Â Language and Computers, Volume: 51

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004333758

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 01 Jan 2004

Subjects
- Languages and Linguistics
  - Applied Linguistics
  - Indo-European Languages

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