[Corpora-List] RE : Annotation layers: missing reference

[amsler at cs.utexas.edu]

However, corpora were well established as the basis for lexicography  
in the US by the 1970s with books such as the American Heritage Word  
Frequency Book serving as the basis for the "American Heritage  
Dictionary of the English Language" (Houghton MIfflin Co, 1969) (see  
foreword essay of the dictonary by Henry Kucera on "Computers in  
Language Analysis and in Lexicography"). This of course followed his  
significant "Computational Analysis of Present-Day American English"  
(Kucera & Francis, Brown U. Press, 1967).

Just out of curiosity, what were the discoveries about grammar and  
linguistics that have come from corpora that were not marketed in the  
US before 1970? Or is this just a philosophical attitude?  Note: I'm  
not taking sides here, I just don't know what grammatical/linguistic  
rules came from corpora studies that linguists were ignoring in the US  
before 1970.



> On 11/20/2010 10:36 AM, chris brew wrote:
>> it's safe to assume that most things about corpora were discovered and
>> carefully documented (but not necessarily marketed in the US) before 1970
>


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