Some current quantitative problems in corpus linguistics and a sketch of some solutions

G Stefan Th - Language and Linguistics, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper surveys a variety of methodological problems in current quantitative corpus
linguistics. Some problems discussed are from corpus linguistics in general, such as the …

[图书][B] Grammatical variation in British English dialects: A study in corpus-based dialectometry

B Szmrecsanyi - 2013 - books.google.com
Variation within the English language is a vast research area, of which dialectology, the
study of geographic variation, is a significant part. This book explores grammatical …

Mapping out particle placement in Englishes around the world: A study in comparative sociolinguistic analysis

J Grafmiller, B Szmrecsanyi - Language Variation and Change, 2018 - cambridge.org
This study explores variability in particle placement across nine varieties of English around
the globe, utilizing data from the International Corpus of English and the Global Corpus of …

[PDF][PDF] Quantitative designs and statistical techniques

ST Gries - The Cambridge handbook of English corpus linguistics, 2015 - Citeseer
As is well-known, corpus linguistics is an inherently distributional discipline: corpora really
only contain strings of elements–letters/characters in the typical case of corpora as text files …

Towards a dynamic behavioral profile: A diachronic study of polysemous sentir in Spanish

M Jansegers, ST Gries - Corpus linguistics and linguistic theory, 2020 - degruyter.com
This study examines the diachronic evolution of the polysemy of the Spanish verb sentir ('to
feel') by means of a corpus-based dynamic behavioral profile (BP) analysis …

[图书][B] The present perfect in World Englishes: Charting unity and diversity

V Werner - 2014 - books.google.com
According to Bauer, the Present Perfect (HAVE+ V-en; henceforth PrPf)“has always been a
somewhat inconvenient case”(1970: 189) in research on English grammar. The elusiveness …

A comparison of statistical methods for the aggregation of regional linguistic variation

J Grieve - … dialectology, typology, and register analysis: Linguistic …, 2014 - degruyter.com
This paper compares two statistical approaches to the analysis of aggregated regional
linguistic variation. In the standard approach to dialectometry, common patterns of regional …

Temporal adverbials and the present perfect/past tense alternation

V Werner - English World-Wide, 2013 - jbe-platform.com
Specification by certain temporal adverbials has been shown to be one of the typical triggers
of the present perfect in British English. Often, however, L2 varieties display different …

Revisiting the classification of Gallo-Italic: a dialectometric approach

M Tamburelli, L Brasca - Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Abstract While Gallo-Italic varieties clearly belong to the Romance language family, their
subgrouping as either Gallo-Romance or Italo-Romance has been the source of …

Morphosyntactic variation in the anglophone world: A global perspective

B Kortmann, C Wolk - The Mouton world atlas of variation in English, 2012 - degruyter.com
In this concluding chapter we want to address, on the one hand, a few issues that transcend
the range of topics that were discussed in the regional and typological profiles in Parts VIII …