[Corpora-List] Corpus linguistics in everyday life

[Mike Maxwell]

Martin Wynne wrote:

> Actually this isn't a case of corpora showing us the problem -
> their intuitions about the phrase should have told them this.
> All the corpus work is doing is to provide the evidence to
> back up the intuitions.

As a Bad Guy on this list (read: Generative Linguist), I had to chuckle.  Of
course the real point is that the two approaches are complementary, but
still...

    Mike Maxwell
    Linguistic Data Consortium
    maxwell at ldc.upenn.edu