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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif">Eric is right. We need more information. The "up to corpus linguistics" is confusing as he stated. Could this be a translation mistake with "up to"? The "up to" makes your question sound as if corpus based research is within some hierarchy of analysis, which it isn't. It is simply one kind of analysis that can be done with texts (written or spoken). Also, "analyze their words" is very broad. There are many ways to analyze words. The way you analyze them often depends on what you are looking for. And thus, perhaps, the kind of questions you need to ask in order to try to ellicit the kind of examples you need. So you have a lot of decisions to make before asking your questions and Eric's web sites could help you here.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif">If this is an assignment from a teacher, and you have a handout from her/him explaining it, can you tell us exactly what is written for this part of the assignment? (if it is in English it would be more helpful) </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif">Kindest regards,</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif">Linda </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">----- Original Message ----<BR>From: yakup durmus <durmus1071@yahoo.com><BR>To: corpora@uib.no<BR>Sent: Wednesday, July 2, 2008 4:20:17 AM<BR>Subject: [Corpora-List] need for questions<BR><BR>
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<DIV>i have a study about corpus linguistic. i have to prepare<BR>questions to ask foreign english speakers and analyze their words up to<BR>corpus linguistic. what can you suggest me ? what can i ask these<BR>people ?<BR>
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<DIV>thanks a lot.</DIV></DIV></DIV><BR></DIV></div></body></html>