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Corpus, concordance, collocation

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Oxford University Press, 1991 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 179 pages

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Basic text processing
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The evidence of usage
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abstract adjectives alphabetical analysis Appendix basic cent Chapter choice chunk citation citation forms clause co-occurrence Cobuild dictionary collocation common words concordance concordancing context conventional corpora corpus linguistics declined different word-forms distinction English Language environment evidence example explanation fairly Figure frequency statistics frequent words give grammar headword human idiom principle important intuitions John Sinclair kind KWIC language text large number lemma lexical lexicography lexis linguistics meaning million words monitor corpus node nominal group normally object occur open-choice principle particular patterns phrasal verb possible preposition problem pronoun reference sample selection semantic sentence Sinclair small sub-section someone spoken statement statistical stress the average support noun syntactic syntax Text Encoding Initiative transitive verb typical University of Birmingham usage verbal vocabulary whole win a victory word or phrase yield stress Yield Yielded

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TitleCorpus, concordance, collocation
Describing English language
AuthorJohn Sinclair
Edition3, illustrated, reprint
PublisherOxford University Press, 1991
Original fromthe University of California
Digitized5 Mar 2008
ISBN0194371441, 9780194371445
Length179 pages
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Computational linguistics
Computer literacy
English language
Language Arts & Disciplines / General
Language Arts & Disciplines / Grammar
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics
Language Arts & Disciplines / Study & Teaching
Study and teaching
  
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