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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Przemek,</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt'><a
href="http://www.sketchengine.co.uk/bnc/run.cgi/view?q=q%22you%22+%22are%22;corpname=BNC&refs=%3Dbncdoc.id"
target=main><font size=4><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>21497</span></font> </a> hits,
1075 pages such as the below, of “you are” available at the Word
Sketch Engine. <a href="http://www.sketchengine.co.uk/">http://www.sketchengine.co.uk</a></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Depending on your mail reader, you can hit the number
and go straight to the search result. You’ll need a WSE username
and password, available by return of email at the URL above.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Any moderately formal registers that use “you”
(eg official leaflets) will not use contractions.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Best,</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Adam</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt'>-----Original Message-----<br>
From: </span></font><span lang=EN-US>owner-corpora@lists.uib.no</span><span
lang=EN-US>[mailto:</span><span lang=EN-US>owner-corpora@lists.uib.no</span><span
lang=EN-US>] On Behalf Of Przemek Kaszubski<br>
Sent: </span><span lang=EN-US>19 July 2005</span><span lang=EN-US> </span><span lang=EN-US>17:59</span><span lang=EN-US><br>
To: CORPORA@hd.uib.no<br>
Subject: [Corpora-List] you vs. contractions</span></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Dear List Members,</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Are there any registers/genres in English in which the
pronoun "you" </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt'>co-occurs (textually) with fully written rather than
contracted forms? I </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt'>tried to extract such texts from the BNC using the
SARA interface but </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt'>could not. If anyone can point to relevant research or
help with </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt'>extraction, I'd be most grateful.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Thanks!</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Przemek</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt'>-- </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Dr Przemyslaw Kaszubski</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt'>+48 61 8293515</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt'>http://elex.amu.edu.pl/ifa/staff/kaszubski.html</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt'>PICLE LEARNER CORPUS ONLINE:</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt'>http://www.staff.amu.edu.pl/~przemka/picle.html</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt'>COMPREHENSIVE CORPORA BIBLIOGRAPHY:</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt'>http://www.staff.amu.edu.pl/~przemka</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt'>MY SEMINARS:</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt'>http://www.staff.amu.edu.pl/~przemka/seminars.htm</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt'>ACADEMIC WRITING PAGE (FULL-TIME PROGRAMME):</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt'>http://www.staff.amu.edu.pl/~przemka/IFA_writing</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>=======================================</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt'>School</span></font><span lang=EN-US> of </span><span
lang=EN-US>English</span><span lang=EN-US> (IFA)</span></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>Adam</span></font><span lang=EN-US> </span><span
lang=EN-US>Mickiewicz</span><span lang=EN-US> </span><span lang=EN-US>University</span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt'>http://elex.amu.edu.pl/ifa</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>=======================================</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
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