[Corpora-List] Quantitive Corpus Linguistics

[Mike Maxwell]

J Washtell wrote:
> I find it a bit optimistic (given my own intuitions of course. But I  
> should say that I do not find it beyond the realms of possibility)  
> that the evidence necessary to solve all of our linguistic and  
> (unavoidably?!) cognitive-linguistic ponderings is to be found in the  
> text (not in the brain, say, or in the extra-corporal context). 

Not to mention that if you limit yourself to studying things that 
require large corpora, you rule out studying perhaps 99% of the 
languages in the world.
-- 
    Mike Maxwell
    "We signify something too narrow when we say:
    Man is a grammatical animal. For although there
    is no animal except man with a knowledge of grammar,
    yet not every man has a knowledge of grammar."
    --Martianus Capella, "The Seven Liberal Arts"

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