[Corpora-List] Special issue of ZAA: The Scope and Limits of Corpus Linguistics...

[Ute Römer]

Dear all, 

On behalf of Volker Gast (FU Berlin), I would like to announce the
publication of a special issue of the journal Zeitschrift aus Anglistik und
Amerikanistik - A Quarterly of Language, Literature and Culture (ZAA) that
might be of interest to some of you. 

The title of the issue (54,2) is "The Scope and Limits of Corpus Linguistics
- Empiricism in the Description and Analysis of English". It can be ordered
directly from the publisher's website http://www.koenigshausen-neumann.de
(links "Webshop" and "Stichwortsuche") for 13 Euros plus p&p.  

Here is the table of contents of the issue (a pdf of the editorial can be
found at http://www.zaa.koenigshausen-neumann.de/aktuell.htm):


Editorial 	 V

Artikel

VOLKER GAST
Introduction 	 113

UTE RÖMER
Pedagogical Applications of Corpora: Some Reflections on the Current Scope
and a Wish List for Future Developments 	 121

NORBERT SCHLÜTER
How Reliable are the Results? Comparing Corpus-Based Studies of the Present
Perfect	 135

ILKA MINDT
Distributional Data and Grammatical Structures: The Case of So-Called
‘Subject 
Extraposition’ 	 149

VOLKER GAST
The Distribution of Also and Too: A Preliminary Corpus Study 	 163

STEFAN EVERT
How Random is a Corpus? The Library Metaphor 	 177

STEFAN TH. GRIES
Some Proposals towards a More Rigorous Corpus Linguistics 	 191

WILLEM HOLLMANN AND ANNA SIEWIERSKA
Corpora and (the Need for) Other Methods in a Study of Lancashire Dialect
203

ANKE LÜDELING
Using Corpora in the Calculation of Language Relationships 	 217


Best wishes... Ute

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Dr. Ute Römer
English Department
Leibniz University of Hanover
Königsworther Platz 1
30167 Hannover
Germany
 
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