[Corpora-List] CL - bright examples

[PD Dr. Edward Wornar]

>   I had a dispute here with a traditional linguist. He asked me -
> can you show me bright examples of applying of Corpus Linguistics to
> linguistic problems.  I think - it is interesting (and maybe well
> known) question So - may I ask the CL community to tell me about
> some "demos" of CL advantages?

In my professor's thesis, I've applied our corpus data to demonstrate
aspect usage in Upper Sorbian to be different from what grammars state
as well as showing examples of affixation that are contrary to what's
"allowed". BTW, although I would claim to be a more or less
traditional linguist (at least I like listening to traditionals
sometimes while working :-) I guess it's the only way to go if you
want to state a new, different theory for anything: You have to
provide the data.  The more you can provide, the more likely you're
building your theory on relevant data and not on incidential or
individual language.

Cheers

Edi