[Corpora-List] history of corpus linguistics

[Niladri Sekhar Dash]

There are two more good articles on 'history of corpus linguistics'. 
These are as follows.

Francis, W.N. (1992) Language corpora BC. In, Svartvik, Jan (Ed.) 
Directions in Corpus Linguistics: Proceedings of Nobel Symposium 82. 
Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Pp. 17-32.

McKenny, J. (2003) "Swift's prescience: a polite precursor of corpus 
linguistics". Journal of Language and Literature. 2(1): 47-65.

Perhaps, the first and complete book on 'history of corpus linguistics' is 
the following:

Dash, N.S. (2007) Language Corpora: Past, Present and Future. Kolkata: T. 
Media Publication (India).

The Table of content of the book includes - Introduction, Pre-electronic 
Corpora: A Brief Survey (Chapter 1), History of Text Corpus Generation 
(Chapter 2), History of Speech Corpus Generation (Chapter 3), Indian 
Scenario in Corpus Generation (Chapter 4), Future Direction (Chapter 5), 
Syllabus for Corpus Linguistics (Appendix I), Bibliography, and General 
Index.

The book is scheduled to be officially released in the Kolkata Book Fair 
to be held at Kolkata, West Bengal, India during the first week of 
February 2007.


With best regards,

Sincerely,

Niladri Sekhar Dash
http://www.isical.ac.in/~niladri


On Sat, 6 Jan 2007, Geoffrey Williams wrote:

> As far as I know there is no complete and unexpurgated history as yet, b ut I 
> very good background is given from in Graeme Kennedy's introduction to corpus 
> linguistics. I recently wrote an explanation of the origins contextualist 
> corpus linguistics for a French audience, who often seem to confuse corpus 
> linguistics and NLP, and also literary analysis with quantitive methods. In 
> looking for information John Sinclair pointed me in the direction of a very 
> interesting article by Léon (2005) which kicks into touch the boring litany 
> of Chomskyan influence on linguistics this side of the pond. Given that John 
> was a prime mover in the development of corpus studies in the UK, the 
> interview of with Wolfgang Teubert in the introduction the recent 
> republication of the OSTI report by Ramesh Krishnamurthy (Sinclair et al 
> 2004) is worth reading, as is the report itself as it is a good lesson in 
> humility with so much done to lay the foundations of current methodology. 
> Another source in the same ilk is Sampson and McCarthy (2004) as this has 
> texts from the pre computer period as well as some foundational texts that 
> are no longer easily available.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Best
>
> Geoffrey
>
> *Kennedy G.*1998. /An introduction to corpus linguistics./ London & New York: 
> Longman
>
> *Léon, J*. 2005. ?Claimed and unclaimed sources of /Corpus Linguistics?/. 
> /Henry Sweet Society Bulletin/. N°44. pp.36-50.
>
> *G. Sampson and D. McCarthy (eds). */Corpus Linguistics: Readings// in a 
> widening discipline/. London and New York: Continuum, 2004
>
> *Sinclair J. McH., Jones S., Daley R.* 2004. /English Collocation Studies: 
> The OSTI Report/. Londres - New York : Continuum.
>
> Geoffrey Williams
> Professeur des Universités en Sciences du Langage
> Université de Bretagne Sud, Lorient, France
> geoffrey.williams at univ-ubs.fr
>
> Florian Petran a écrit :
>
>> McEnery/Wilson : Corpus Linguistics. An introduction, Edinburgh: EUP
>> 2005 have a chapter on the topic.
>> 
>> Harris: The linguistics wars, Oxford: OUP 1993
>> covers the debate with Chomsky, though does not deal explicitly with
>> corpus linguistics.
>> 
>> 2007/1/5, Ronald P. Reck <rreck at rrecktek.com>:
>> 
>>> Can someone recommend sources for a history of corpus linguistics, and
>>> more specifically string frequency analysis?
>>> 
>>> Right now I have:
>>> 
>>> Hockney, Susan, 2000. Electronic Texts in the Humanities Oxford
>>> University Press
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks.
>>> 
>>> 
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