[Corpora-List] American and British English spelling converter

[Karin Axelsson]

9 nov 2006 kl. 10.56 skrev Martin Wynne:

> I find it fascinating that as soon as we find a linguistic topic  
> which sparks the interest of everyone here, the discussion suddenly  
> makes hardly any reference to corpora. Why are suddenly anecdotes,  
> intuitions, folk theories and made-up examples preferable to  
> consulting corpora?
>
> It's a serious question. It seems to me reasonable to bring in  
> these other factors and pieces of evidence to inform a discussion  
> about corpus linguistics, but why is almost no-one consulting a  
> corpus, or consulting research papers based on corpora? Lack of  
> resources? Lack of tools? Don't think that use of corpora is  
> appropriate for this question?
>
> Martin
>
> -- 
> Martin Wynne
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There's a new book by John Algeo, "British or American English? A  
handbook of word and grammar patterns" (Cambridge University Press),  
which is based on corpus data. There are sections for all parts of  
speech and a selection of syntactic constructions.