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This volume, which has textbook character, is intended to provide
an in-depth introduction to different theoretical and
methodological research frameworks concerned with the role of
item-specific grammatical and lexical behaviour.
This volume presents the results of the international symposium
Chunks in Corpus Linguistics and Cognitive Linguistics, held at the
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg to honour John Sinclair's
contribution to the development of linguistics in the second half
of the twentieth century. The main theme of the book, highlighting
important aspects of Sinclair's work, is the idiomatic character of
language with a focus on chunks (in the sense of prefabricated
items) as extended units of meaning. To pay tribute to Sinclair's
enormous impact on research in this field, the volume contains two
contributions which deal explicitly with his work, including
material from unpublished manuscripts. Beyond that, the articles
cover different aspects of chunks ranging from more
theoretically-oriented to more applied papers, in which foreign
language teaching and the computational application of the insights
about the nature of language provided by corpus research play an
important role. The volume demonstrates the wide applicability and
relevance of the notion of chunks by bringing together research
from different fields of linguistics such as theoretical
linguistics, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics and
foreign language teaching, and thus provides an interdisciplinary
view on the impact of idiomaticity in language.
In recent years, research on valency has led to important insights
into the nature of language. Some of these findings are published
in this volume for the first time with up-to-date accounts of
language description and new reflections on language, above all for
English and German. The volume also presents examples of
contrastive analysis, which are of use for all those who deal
professionally with these two languages. Furthermore, the articles
in the psycholinguistic and computational linguistics section
demonstrate the applicability and value of valency theory for these
approaches and shed light on a fruitful cooperation between
theoretical and descriptive linguistics and applied disciplines.
The papers cover the following aspects of valency analysis: (i)
theoretical aspects of the valency approach in relation to related
theories of complementation (dependency syntax, FrameNet, case
roles), (ii) descriptive aspects of valency and complementation,
(iii) valency as a concept for the description of cognitive
processes in syntactic processing, (iv) contrastive aspects of
valency, above all for English and German, and (v) possible
computational applications of the valency concept in fields such as
automatic syntactic recognition or language processing. The volume
combines papers of representatives from different linguistic
schools on the topic of complementation. One of the aims is to show
how concepts developed for the analysis of one language, in the
case of valency often German, can be applied to other languages
such as English.
This dictionary provides a valency description of English verbs,
nouns and adjectives. Each entry contains a comprehensive list of
the complementation patterns identified on the basis of the largest
corpus of English available at the present time. All examples are
taken directly from the COBUILD/Birmingham corpus. The valency
description comprises statements about the quantitative valency of
the lexical units established, an inventory of their obligatory,
contextually optional and purely optional complements as well as
systematic information on the semantic and collocational properties
of the complements. An outline of the model of valency theory used
in this dictionary is provided in the introduction. Key Features
unique reference work with no comparable publication on the market
English is the world's most important lingua franca and the most
frequently learned second language
This book provides an introduction to central areas of English
linguistics. The book consists of six large sections: language and
linguistics - sounds - words - sentences - utterances - applied
linguistics. Each of these sections is subdivided into a number of
chapters, some of which address beginners, some of which are
intended for more advanced students. The book is written from a
foreign student's perspective of the English language, i.e. aspects
relevant to foreign language teaching and didactics are especially
focussed on. The book also provides basic facts concerning the
history of the language and differences between British and
American English. The main idea is to demonstrate that usually in
linguistics there is not just one way of describing certain facts.
This is why each section contains a chapter written for beginners
providing a broad outline of the area and introducing the basic
terminology for each field. The other chapters in each section
highlight certain linguistic facts in more detail and give an idea
of how particular theories account for them. The book can thus be
used from the first semester onwards but is also intended to serve
as an important study aid for final B.A.-examinations. Key features
comprehensive introduction to the fundamentals of English
linguistics highly accessible through a strongly didactic,
reader-friendly orientation
The aim of the volume is to indicate potential applications of
various approaches in theoretical and descriptive linguistics to
the organization of dictionaries. Vice versa, there is equal
emphasis on the ways in which problems in the lexicographic
description of languages can have very real effects on theory
formation. The volume concentrates on a discussion of English
dictionaries in this connection.
Over the past few decades, the book series Linguistische Arbeiten
[Linguistic Studies], comprising over 500 volumes, has made a
significant contribution to the development of linguistic theory
both in Germany and internationally. The series will continue to
deliver new impulses for research and maintain the central insight
of linguistics that progress can only be made in acquiring new
knowledge about human languages both synchronically and
diachronically by closely combining empirical and theoretical
analyses. To this end, we invite submission of high-quality
linguistic studies from all the central areas of general
linguistics and the linguistics of individual languages which
address topical questions, discuss new data and advance the
development of linguistic theory.
This volume undertakes a detailed analysis of the latest generation
of learners' dictionaries of English. It assembles the papers
delivered at the eponymous symposium held at the University of
Erlangen-Nurnberg in April 1997. There are a number of reasons why
these dictionaries are of special lexicographic interest: 1. the
type of learners' dictionary associated notably with the name of
Hornby can look back on a long tradition in British lexicography;
2. competition between various publishers since the late 70s has
given crucial impetus to the development of these dictionaries; 3.
these new dictionaries are decisively marked by the evaluation of
large-scale computer corpora. Central to the volume is the in-depth
comparison of four dictionaries published in 1995: OALD5, LDOCE3,
COBUILD2, CIDE. The aim is to exemplify specific differences of
approach in the four dictionaries from a wide range of viewpoints
(definitions, information on valency and collocations, policy on
usage examples, political correctness, etc.). A number of articles
also enlarge on the history of learners' dictionaries of English,
the significance of corpus linguistics for lexicography, and
perspectives for the future, notably in connection with the
electronic media.
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