Description
Summary: | This volume consists of selected papers from the 2009 meeting of the American Association for Corpus Linguistics. The chapters cover aspects of language use (usage-based accounts of morphology/syntax of English and Tok Pisin), language learning (corpus-based learning of English, syntactic development observable in a Learner Corpus of English, "core" vocabulary items for learners of English) and language documentation (a new and innovative usage-based frequency dictionary of English, proposals to broaden the traditional understanding of a corpus in various directions, e.g., constructing a corpu.
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Item Description: | "Collection of selected papers presented at the American Association for Corpus Linguistics Conference, held in Edmonton, Alberta, on October 8-11, 2009." Creating and using A frequency dictionary of Contemporary American English: word sketches, collocates, and thematic lists. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (297 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
ISBN: | 9789401206884 9401206880 9042034017 9789042034013 9786613366221 6613366226 1283366223 9781283366229 |
Language: | English. |
Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |